Jake Virtanen

Virtanen was charged in January with sexual assault in connection with an incident in a downtown Vancouver.

Virtanen was a member of the Canucks when the allegations surfaced in May 2021. He last played in the Russian-based Kontinental Hockey League. Virtanen told the court he met the woman when he was 20 years old and she was 18 at the Calgary Stampede in 2017, and they stayed in touch over Instagram and text messages throughout that summer when they both returned to B.C.

Virtanen wept openly when the verdict was read in B.C. Supreme Court on Tuesday. He clutched his head in his hands and was comforted by his defence lawyers ...

The woman was 18 years old when she drove to Vancouver that September to visit family and friends, and do a photo shoot. They exchanged numbers and kept in touch via text and direct messages on Instagram. He picked her up from her friend's house and took her to his hotel room. Crown counsel Alan Ip told the jury the woman had a "firm" memory of the critical details of the alleged assault and was "unshaken on major and important points in her testimony." For readers in America, a list of resources and references can be found here. He clutched his head in his hands and was comforted by his defence lawyers while several friends and family, seated in the front row of the courtroom, whispered "yes!"

Virtanen wept openly when the verdict was read in B.C. Supreme Court on Tuesday. He clutched his head in his hands and was comforted by his defence lawyers ...

The woman was 18 years old when she drove to Vancouver that September to visit family and friends, and do a photo shoot. They exchanged numbers and kept in touch via text and direct messages on Instagram. He picked her up from her friend's house and took her to his hotel room. VANCOUVER — A jury has found former Vancouver Canucks forward Jake Virtanen not guilty of sexual assault. Jury finds former Canucks forward Virtanen not guilty of sexual assault A jury has found former Vancouver Canucks forward Jake Virtanen not guilty of sexual assault.

A jury has found former Vancouver Canucks forward Jake Virtanen not guilty of sexual assault.

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Former Vancouver Canucks forward Jake Virtanen has been found not guilty of sexual assault by a jury in the British Columbia Supreme Court.

A jury in the British Columbia Supreme Court has found former NHL forward Jake Virtanen not guilty of sexual assault on Tuesday afternoon. Jury Finds Ex-NHLer Virtanen Not Guilty of Sexual Assault

After a trial that lasted a week, former Canucks forward Jake Virtanen has been declared not guilty by a jury at BC Supreme Court.

Virtanen was due to make $3.4 million USD last season, but was bought out by the Canucks in late July at one-third of his $3 million base salary. The victim, who was simply called MS in court proceedings, was 18-years-old at the time of the alleged incident. In a statement to Daily Hive, the BC Ministry of the Attorney General said, “while this is not the result we advocated for we respect the process and the work done by the jury in this case.”

Because sexual assault trials often hinge on conflicting versions of events, the burden for proof beyond a reasonable doubt is hard to clear, lawyers say.

So even if Mr. Virtanen is acquitted on the basis of his testimony, that doesn’t mean he won’t be found liable for civil consequences.” A trial has yet to be held in the civil case. “Obviously, a conviction in the criminal case can make it a lot easier for the civil case to work out,” she said. They said the woman changed her story around consent. “I think if the criminal system is going to be a measure of justice, and we’re seeing that it’s not, then I think society is going to have to look for other ways to address sexualized violence because it continues unabated,” she said. “One of the defences available to an accused person is that they honestly believed, but mistakenly, that a person was consenting to sexual activity,” she explained.