{"id":12426,"date":"2014-05-29T02:12:52","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T18:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=12426"},"modified":"2014-05-29T02:12:52","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T18:12:52","slug":"testimony-in-sexual-assault-case-wraps-up-in-nova-scotia-lawyers-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/29\/testimony-in-sexual-assault-case-wraps-up-in-nova-scotia-lawyers-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Testimony in sexual assault case wraps up in Nova Scotia lawyer&#8217;s trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12623\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12623\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sexual-harrassment.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12623\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sexual-harrassment.jpg\" alt=\"ShutterStock image\" width=\"1000\" height=\"662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sexual-harrassment.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sexual-harrassment-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12623\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ShutterStock image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>HALIFAX &#8212; Testimony in the trial of a Halifax lawyer charged with sexual assault and administering a stupefying drug wrapped up Tuesday with the lawyer being cross examined by the Crown.<\/p>\n<p>Lyle Howe was charged after the alleged incident involving the woman in March 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The final day of testimony saw Howe sparring with the Crown attorney over how he was being questioned.<\/p>\n<p>While being cross-examined about whether his evidence was &#8220;convenient&#8221; to support his story about what happened the night of the alleged assault, Howe told the Crown he thought the questions were inappropriate.<\/p>\n<p>The woman has testified that she doesn&#8217;t remember what happened after she and Howe sat on a couch and started to kiss about 20 minutes after he arrived at her apartment.<\/p>\n<p>She said she woke up the next morning feeling sore and soon concluded she had been drugged and raped.<\/p>\n<p>Howe has said he had consensual sex with the woman and has denied administering a drug.<\/p>\n<p>Howe was the last witness in the case.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers will make their closing arguments Wednesday, and jurors will begin deliberations Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HALIFAX &#8212; Testimony in the trial of a Halifax lawyer charged with sexual assault and administering a stupefying drug wrapped &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":12623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[4202,3805,4201],"class_list":["post-12426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","tag-lawyer","tag-nova-scotia","tag-sexual-assault","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}