In November, an Ontario court judge rejected Ryan Hartman's sexsomnia defence and found him guilty of sexual assault a second time. On his second appeal in 2015, he won a new trial and argued he was not criminally responsible because of a mental disorder. Charter challenge may have meritOttawa defence lawyer Mark Ertel said the second trial does appear to have taken an unusually long time. Hartman's second trial began in April 2017, and the judge didn't make her ruling until November 2018 — a span of 20 months. "[Twenty months in this case is] well in excess of the Jordan guidelines, on the face of it," Ertel said.

Source: CBC News January 22, 2019 15:45 UTC