An legal professional representing Trailer Park Boys star Mike Smith is talking out after the actor was charged with sexual assault.
“Effectively, what I'm going to say is, that is an allegation at this level. It hasn't been confirmed,” Smith's lawyer Stan MacDonald told reporters outdoors the Halifax Provincial Courtroom on Monday, November 10. “It'll be tried within the court docket, it gained't be tried within the media.”
The legal professional added, “Within the meantime, we ask that the privateness of everybody concerned be revered. In order that's all I wish to say as we speak. Thanks.”
In accordance with Canada's Global News, Smith has been charged with sexual assault in connection to an alleged incident that came about in December 2017. Courtroom paperwork obtained by the information outlet point out Smith was charged by Halifax Regional Police on October 2.
Senior Crown legal professional Nicole Ford defined to reporters why Smith was charged a few years after the alleged incident came about.
“It's truly fairly widespread for prices of sexual violence to return out afterward into years following the alleged incident,” she famous. “That's not unusual. We do see that often, and that's why there's no limitation for sexual violence.”
Ford confirmed that there's one feminine complainant within the case. Her identification will probably be protected underneath a publication ban.
Smith performed Bubbles in additional than 100 episodes of Trailer Park Boys since its premiere in April 2001. The actor additionally reprised his position in 4 feature-length spinoff motion pictures and Netflix's Trailer Park Boys: The Animated Collection.
Mike Smith Myriad Photos/Courtesy Everett Assortment
Ford made it clear that Smith will probably be handled like anybody else in court docket — no matter his success as an actor.
“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 another way than every other particular person,” she stated. “We on the PPS (Public Prosecution Service) take each file very severely. We consider each file the identical manner for every particular person individual and we preserve our integrity of the investigation individually and we don't present any sort of particular therapy to anybody based mostly on their public profile.”
Us Weekly has reached out to MacDonald for added remark.
Since Smith's authorized troubles arose, the Trailer Park Boys staff confirmed that the actor had “stepped away” from his position as managing director of their manufacturing firm, Trailer Park Boys Inc.
“We're conscious of the allegation regarding Mike Smith relationship again to 2017 and take such issues severely,” a Trailer Park Boys Inc. assertion learn. “We acknowledge how tough an allegation of this nature is for all concerned. Out of respect for the authorized course of, we is not going to remark additional on the case.”
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In April, Deadline reported that Smith and different veteran Trailer Park Boys forged members have been reuniting to make season 13 after a seven-year hiatus.
A Trailer Park Boys Inc. consultant instructed CBC Information that the manufacturing staff have been nonetheless “targeted on delivering the long-awaited thirteenth season for our followers.”
Smith's subsequent court docket date is about for December 3. At the moment, he'll be capable to enter a plea.
When you or somebody you understand has been sexually assaulted, contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673).
