Charge: Driving While Prohibited. Issue: Whether it was in the public interest to proceed with this charge that carries a mandatory 12 month driving prohibition. Result: Mr. Mines was able to persuade Crown counsel to proceed on the lesser offence of driving without a licence. The trial judge sentenced our client to a $300 fine and […]
Charge: Attempted Child Abduction; Assault x2. Issue: Whether the Crown would be able to prove that our client actually intended to abduct the alleged victim. Result: Mr. Mines was able to persuade Crown Counsel that, by reason of severe intoxication, our client was incapable of forming the intent to abduct the victim. We were able […]
Charge: Assault. Issue: Whether it was in the public interest for the court to grant our client a discharge. our client was charged in the context of trying to avoid being arrested for fraud under $5000. Result: Upon hearing Mr. Mines’ submissions, the Court granted our client a conditional dischrge and placed him on probation […]
Charge: Possession for the Purpose of Trafficking (Cocaine, Heroin, etc.) Issue: Whether police lawfully searched our client and the interior of his car. Result: Mr. Mines was able to steer our client through the investigation, which concluded with no charge being recommended.
Charge: Notice of Intent to Prohibit Driving. Issue: Whether it would be possible to extend the time to dispute a violation ticket that caused the notice of driving prohibition to be issued. Result: Mr. Mines was able to get the conviction removed from our client’s driving record. Without that conviction, the Superintendent withdrew the Intent […]
Charge: 90 Day Administrative Driving Prohibition. Issue: Whether the police officer had made a lawful breath demand. Result: Mr. Mines was able to persuade the adjudicator that our client had no obligation to comply with a breath demand that was not authorized by the Criminal Code. The driving prohibition was revoked. All fees and penalties […]
Charge: Obstruct Police; Resist Arrest. Issue: Whether it was in the public interest to prosecute our client who was extremely uncooperative with police during their impaired driving investigation of him. Result: Mr. Mines was able to persuade Crown counsel to let our client into the Alternative Measures program. This ended the prosecution. No criminal record.
Charge: Assault Causing Bodily Harm. Issue: Given the rehabilitative steps our client had taken under our direction, whether a jail sentence would be the appropriate sentence. Result: Notwithstanding that our client fractured the complainant’s cheekbone, Mr. Mines was able to persude Crown counsel to make a joint submission to the court for a conditional discharge […]
Charge: Driving while prohibited. Issue: Whether it was in the public interest to proceed with the charge. Result: Mr. Johnson was able to persuade Crown counsel to proceed on the lesser offence of Driving Without a Valid License. Rather than a mandatory one year driving prohibition, our client was sentenced to a $300 fine. No […]
Charge: Fraud; Misrepresentation. Issue: Given our client’s remorse and cooperation, whether there was a public interest in proceeding with a criminal charge. Result: Mr. Johnson was able to steer our client through the investigation and was able to persuade the investigator to not forward any charges to Crown counsel. No criminal record.
Charge: Theft Under $5000. Issue: Given the circumstances of the offence and the rehabilitative steps our client had taken, whether it was in the public interest to proceed with the charge. Result: Mr. Johnson persuaded Crown counsel to allow our client into the Alternative Measures program and to stay the charge. No criminal record.
Charge: Fraud Under $5000. Issue: Whether it was in the public interest to proceed with the criminal charge. Result: Mr. Mines was able to persuade Crown Counsel to allow our client into the Alternative Measures program and to stay the charge. No criminal record.
