The court ruled on the admissibility of videotaped police statements from the complainant (S.W.) under s. 715.1 of the Criminal Code.
The Crown sought to admit these statements for the truth of their contents.
The complainant experienced significant distress when attempting to watch the videos during testimony and indicated she was hallucinating and not "all there" during the first interview.
The court found that the complainant had not adopted the statements under oath and that their admission would interfere with the proper administration of justice due to compromised reliability and the complainant's distress.
The application for substantive admission was dismissed.
