The lawyer representing Mike Smith, the actor who performs Bubbles within the Trailer Park Boys, says a sexual assault cost in opposition to his consumer “received’t be tried within the media.”
“Properly, what I’m going to say is, that is an allegation at this level. It hasn’t been confirmed. It’ll be tried within the courtroom, it received’t be tried within the media,” stated lawyer Stan MacDonald at Halifax Provincial Court docket.
“Within the meantime, we ask that the privateness of everybody concerned be revered. In order that’s all I wish to say right this moment. Thanks.”
MacDonald appeared on Smith’s behalf Monday.
Smith has been charged with sexual assault in connection to an alleged incident that courtroom data say befell on Dec. 30, 2017. Court docket paperwork point out Smith was charged by Halifax Regional Police on Oct. 2.
“It’s truly fairly frequent for prices of sexual violence to come back out in a while into years following the alleged incident,” stated Crown lawyer Nicole Ford, who confirmed to reporters there may be one feminine complainant on this case.
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“That’s not unusual, we do see that usually and that’s why there’s no limitation for sexual violence.”
Information of Smith’s cost has made headlines internationally and in leisure retailers, with protection on TMZ, Selection, The Hollywood Reporter and BBC.
“Each individual, irrespective of of their public standing or their public persona or something to do with their public nature or profile, doesn’t get handled any in a different way than another particular person,” stated Ford.
“We on the PPS (Public Prosecution Service) take each file very significantly. We consider each file the identical means for every particular person individual and we keep our integrity of the investigation separate and we don’t present any sort of particular therapy to anybody primarily based on their public profile.”
The matter is being transferred to Dartmouth Provincial Court docket, and Smith’s subsequent courtroom date is about for Dec. 3.
The Crown was granted a publication ban on any info that would establish the alleged sufferer.
Court docket paperwork present that Smith has been ordered to not talk with or go to the office, residence or faculty of the alleged sufferer. The paperwork don’t embrace particulars concerning the allegation.
This isn’t the primary time Smith has confronted prices earlier than. In April 2016, Smith confronted a battery cost in Los Angeles for an incident at a Hollywood lodge involving a girl.
The misdemeanor home battery cost was dropped a month later.
The Trailer Park Boys, a TV sitcom collection that follows a bunch of ex-convicts residing in Nova Scotia and their misadventures, together with petty crimes, first aired in 2001.
Trailer Park Boys introduced in August they’d accomplished filming for the 10-episode Season 13, which is able to coincide with the twenty fifth anniversary of the collection’ begin.
An emailed assertion from Trailer Park Boys Included says they’re conscious of the allegation and take such issues significantly, and Smith has stepped away from his position as managing director.
“We acknowledge how troublesome an allegation of this nature is for all concerned. Out of respect for the authorized course of, we won’t remark additional on the case.”
— With recordsdata from The Canadian Press
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