False sexual assault claim gets a discharge and an accused person is not required to explain why a complainant would lie

This week on Legally Speaking with Michael Mulligan: Annaca Kobayashi, a 19-year-old woman from Langford, falsely reported to the police that a young man she knows had threatened her with a knife and sexually assaulted her. A police investigation, including a review of a video recording where she claimed to have been threatened with the knife, revealed her story to be false. Only after a third police interview did Ms. Kobayashi, who had a boyfriend at the time, admit that she made...