COURT OF APPEAL FOR ONTARIO
Rosenberg, Tulloch and Lauwers JJ.A.
BETWEEN
Her Majesty the Queen
Respondent
and
Giovanni Carlini
Appellant
Frank Miller, for the appellant
Alison Wheeler, for the respondent
Heard: September 18, 2013
On appeal from the decision of the Summary Convictions Appeal Court dated June 7, 2011 by Justice S. Rogin of the Superior Court of Justice, dismissing the appeal from the conviction entered on July 17, 2009 by Justice Sharman Bondy of the Ontario Court of Justice.
APPEAL BOOK ENDORSEMENT
1The appellant’s submission is that the trial judge failed to consider Mrs. Carlini’s evidence about the shaved pubic area and this evidence, if accepted, could have raised a reasonable doubt. The trial judge was alive to this issue, even though it was not referred to in defence counsel’s submission. The appellant’s admission to the police was the heart of the Crown’s case and the trial judge accepted those admissions. They alone proved the case. By necessity, the trial judge had to have rejected the defence evidence. We are satisfied that the treatment of the evidence by the trial judge and by Rogin J. was adequate given the nature of the issues at the trial. There was no need to explicitly subject one minor part of the testimony to a separate W.(D.) analysis.
2Accordingly, the appeal is dismissed.