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Mistrial declared in former Woodstock mayor's first sex assault trial

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Trevor Birtch , 49 , was convicted in June of two counts of sexual assault and one count of assault involving a 45-year-old former girlfriend in 2021 .

On Monday , a judge declared a mistrial for the former Woodstock mayor.

The judge said the Crown did not properly disclose critical evidence used in the first sexual assault trial.

The former mayor served as the top elected official of Woodstock until he was ousted in 2022 .

Birtch faces judgment from Superior Court Justice Spencer Nicholson for the second trial on Jan. 15 .

The defence didn’t review the statement until after the first trial ended, there was no way to argue the evidence was relevant, Carnegie said.

Reopening the trial was not an option because the friend’s evidence “would be intertwined into the narrative requiring substantive reconstruction”.

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