Where the Witness Recants the Agreed Statement of Facts
As made clear by the Supreme
Court in Youvarajah, 2013 SCC 41 (CanLII),
[2013] 2
S.C.R. 720, at paras. 26-30, the admission of agreed statements
of fact for their truth should be consistent with the court’s earlier decisions
in K.G.B. and R. v. Khelawon, 2006 SCC 57 (CanLII), [2006] 2 S.C.R. 787.
That is, when a witness recants,
the agreed statement of facts may be admissible for its truth as an
out-of-court prior inconsistent statement if threshold reliability can be
established by “the presence of adequate substitutes for testing truth and
accuracy (procedural reliability)”: Youvarajah, at para. 30.
R. v. Alexander, 2015
ONCA 167 (CanLII), at para. 17.
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