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In Episode 186, the team tackles a thorny “global charge” spanning more than two decades and uses it to unpack one of criminal law’s hardest strategic calls: how to handle prior discreditable conduct and bad-character evidence in domestic-context sexual assault prosecutions. Drawing on Ontario Court of Appeal guidance in R v MRS (2020 ONCA 667) and R v ZWC (2021 ONCA 116), they contrast narrative relevance with forbidden propensity reasoning, and debate when to object pre-trial versus “lean in” to expose contradictions, motive to fabricate, and animus especially when allegations number in the hundreds and particulars are thin. They weigh risks on appeal, the limits of motions for particulars, credibility traps in he-said-she-said trials, and how custody disputes and timing can colour the evidentiary landscape. It’s a candid, practice-level conversation about judgment calls that can win a case or foreclose appellate remedies.

R. v. MRS, 2020 ONCA 667 - https://canlii.ca/t/jb6p4

R. v. Z.W.C., 2021 ONCA 11 - https://canlii.ca/t/jddvg

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