TORONTO — Lawyers for a Toronto man found guilty of sexual assault are arguing he deserves a new trial because the judge who oversaw his case was allegedly biased against him. Mustafa Ururyar is appealing his July 2016 conviction in the sexual assault of Mandi Gray, a fellow PhD student at York University with whom he had a casual relationship. “He assumed the role of advocate, witness and judge and turned the appellant’s sexual assault trial into a scathing rebuke of how the trial courts treat complainants in sexual assault prosecutions and so called ‘rape myths,”‘ they argue in the documents. “Is the trial judge entitled to highlight social context like this? Ururyar’s lawyers argued it was an inappropriate interpretation of the law.

Source: National Post March 14, 2017 17:26 UTC