After his sexual assault conviction was upheld by Ontario's top court last month, disgraced Hedley frontman Jacob Hoggard is now seeking to appeal his case to the Supreme Court of Canada, CTV News reports.
Hoggard reportedly filed an application for leave to appeal earlier this week, and will seek bail — arguments for which will be heard from his legal team on September 10 — as he awaits a decision from the country's highest court, having currently served less than a month behind bars.
Hoggard was convicted of sexual assault in October 2022, when he was sentenced to five years in prison for raping an Ottawa woman in a Toronto hotel room in 2016. He was out on bail mere hours later, appealing the sentence.
The Ontario court decided to uphold Hoggard's conviction in August, despite the finding that a psychologist who testified on the neurobiology of trauma should not have been heard at his trial, as there was "no substantial wrong or miscarriage of justice."