SUPREME COURT OF CANADA

Appeal heard: February 16, 2018 Judgment rendered: February 16, 2018 Docket: 37795

Between:

A.G.W.

Appellant

and

Her Majesty The Queen in Right of Alberta

Respondent

Coram: Abella, Moldaver, Gascon, Côté and Brown JJ.

Reasons for Judgment: (para. 1)

Abella J. (Moldaver, Gascon, Côté and Brown JJ. concurring)

R. v. A.G.W., 2018 SCC 9, [2018] 1 S.C.R. 263

A.G.W. Appellant

v.

Her Majesty The Queen in Right of Alberta Respondent

Indexed as: R. v. A.G.W .

2018 SCC 9

File No.: 37795.

2018: February 16.

Present: Abella, Moldaver, Gascon, Côté and Brown JJ.

on appeal from the court of appeal for alberta

Criminal law — Appeals — Unreasonable verdict — Misapprehension of evidence — Accused convicted of sexual assault — Court of Appeal holding that trial judge properly assessed evidence and that verdict not unreasonable — Conviction upheld.

APPEAL from a judgment of the Alberta Court of Appeal (Berger, Martin and Strekaf JJ.A.), 2017 ABCA 247 , [2017] A.J. No. 808 (QL), 2017 CarswellAlta 1401 (WL Can.), affirming the conviction of the accused for sexual assault. Appeal dismissed.

Jim Edgett , Dean Zuk and Andrew Stewart , for the appellant.

Julie Morgan , for the respondent.

The judgment of the Court was delivered orally by

[ 1 ] Abella J. — The appeal is dismissed for the reasons of the majority in the Court of Appeal.

Judgment accordingly.

Solicitors for the appellant: Zuk Stewart Edgett Criminal Barristers, Calgary.

Solicitor for the respondent: Justice and Solicitor General, Appeals, Education & Prosecution Policy Branch, Calgary.