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Brown faces a charge of break and enter and commit aggravated assault for the attack, and a second charge of break and enter for smashing his way into another residence before he was arrested by police.

He told defence lawyer Sean Fagan he had gone to the home of a friend, Darnell Glass, for an evening of socializing.

Brown said he consumed six or seven two-ounce cups of Moscow Mules, as well as some beers and about four grams of magic mushrooms, which were in a zip-lock bag in the kitchen when he arrived at Glass’s home.

Sometime early the next morning, while a small group of five friends played beer pong in the basement, Brown said he blacked out.

“The first visible thing I remember is seeing my girlfriend’s face in the hospital,” Brown said.

“And just being in the jail cell at the police station.”

“Do you have any memory . . . of taking your clothes off?” Fagan asked.

“No,” Brown replied.

“Do you have any memory of breaking into Ms. Hamnett’s home?” the lawyer continued.

“No,” Brown repeated.

He said he had never met Hamnett and had no reason to have any animosity toward her.

While Hamnett was not in court, her daughter and son-in-law, Lara and Jason Unsworth, were.

“We felt it was sincere,” Lara Unsworth said of Brown’s apology.

“We really needed to hear the acknowledgment of what he did was wrong and an apology.”

Fagan will argue Brown’s magic mushroom consumption put him in a state of non-insane automatism, which made him incapable of intending the consequences of his actions.

While a section of the Criminal Code prohibits such a defence for crimes of violence, Fagan successfully argued in a pretrial motion the law violated Brown’s Charter rights.

KMartin@postmedia.com

Twitter: @KMartinCourts