Overview
- Appeal documents argue the trial judge wrongly let jurors treat statements in a police‑recorded call as incriminating conduct and misdirected them on its use.
- The recorded call, made 11 days after the incident, included Silvagni urging the woman to move on and continuing to blame his friend, according to court summaries.
- He lodged the application for leave to appeal on January 9, and an oral hearing is sought with no date set.
- A jury convicted him in December of two counts of rape over a January 2024 incident in which, the court heard, he impersonated another man and twice digitally assaulted the woman, and later fabricated an Uber receipt.
- He was sentenced to six years and two months with parole eligibility after three years and three months, and he has not appealed the sentence.