SUPREME COURT OF CANADA
Appeal Heard: April 21, 2021 Judgment Rendered: April 21, 2021 Docket: 39466
Between: Erik Oswaldo Ramos Appellant and Her Majesty The Queen Respondent
Coram: Wagner C.J. and Moldaver, Karakatsanis, Brown and Kasirer JJ.
Unanimous Judgment Read By: (para. 1)
Wagner C.J.
Erik Oswaldo Ramos Appellant
v.
Her Majesty The Queen Respondent
Indexed as: R. v. Ramos
2021 SCC 15
File No.: 39466 .
2021 : April 21 .
Present: Wagner C.J. and Moldaver, Karakatsanis, Brown and Kasirer JJ.
on appeal from the court of appeal for manitoba
Criminal law — Evidence — Assessment — Credibility — Sufficiency of reasons — Accused convicted at trial of sexual assault and sexual interference — Accused appealing convictions on basis that trial judge failed to give adequate reasons with respect to assessment of credibility of witnesses — Majority of Court of Appeal holding that trial judge's reasons were sufficiently articulate in explaining how credibility issues were resolved, that trial judge applied proper framework to assess credibility, and that trial judge did not misapprehend evidence — Convictions upheld.
APPEAL from a judgment of the Manitoba Court of Appeal (Steel, Burnett and Mainella JJ.A.), 2020 MBCA 111 , 457 D.L.R. (4th) 372 , [2020] M.J. No. 266 (QL) , 2020 CarswellMan 448 (WL Can.) , affirming the convictions for sexual assault and sexual interference entered by Toews J., 2018 MBQB 89 . Appeal dismissed.
Evan Roitenberg and Laura Robinson , for the appellant.
Jonathan Avey and Craig Savage , for the respondent.
The judgment of the Court was delivered orally by
[ 1 ] The Chief Justice — We are all of the view, for the reasons of Justice Mainella of the Court of Appeal of Manitoba, to dismiss the appeal.
Judgment accordingly.
Solicitors for the appellant: Gindin Wolson Simmonds Roitenberg , Winnipeg .
Solicitor for the respondent: Manitoba Justice, Winnipeg.