Jury to begin deliberating today in Whati sex assault trial

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Posted By: John McFadden May 17, 2019

A jury is expected to begin deliberating Friday in the Yellowknife trial of a Whati man charged with having sex with a 13-year-old girl.

It’s actually the third trial for Cory Nitsiza, 29.

The first two ended with hung juries – the jurors having not been able to come up with a unanimous verdict.

The sexual assault is alleged to have occurred at Nitsiza’s home in August of 2016.

Closing submissions from his lawyer and the Crown prosecutor got underway Friday morning.

Nitsiza is currently not in custody pending the jury’s verdict.

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John McFadden
John has been in the broadcast journalism industry since the 1980s. He has been a reporter in Yellowknife since 2012 and joined CKLB in January of 2018. John covers the crime and court beat as well as reporting on other areas including politics, business, entertainment and sports. He won seven national community newspaper awards while he was a journalist with Northern News Services Limited (NNSL). John worked in Ontario before coming North including stints as a TV sportscaster in Peterborough and senior news writer for CBC and CTV in downtown Toronto.

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