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 for six months.
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 with 18 months probation. No jail. No criminal conviction.
Charge: Assault (domestic).
Issue: Whether it was in the public interest to proceed with the charge.
Result: Mr. Johnson was able to persuade Crown counsel to stay the proceedings upon our client completing a program of rehabilitation and Alternative Measures. No criminal record.
Charge: Assault (domestic); Uttering a Threat.
Issue: Whether it was in the public interest for Crown counsel to proceed against our client was charged with assaulting his girlfriend and uttering a threat to a worker at a health care clinic.
Result: Mr. Johnson was able to guide our client through rehabilitative steps and to persude . Crown counsel to stay all charges. No criminal record.
Charge: Domestic Assault (reduced to “Peace Bond”).
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 was able to persuade Crown counsel to stay the criminal charge and to ask the court to place our client on a “Peace Bond” for a period of six months. No criminal record.
Charge: Uttering Threats.
Issue: Whether it was in the public interest to proceed with the criminal charge.
Result: Mr. Johnson was able to persuade Crown counsel to enter a stay of proceedings upon our client entering into a Peace Bond for a period of six months. No criminal record.
Charge: Assault (domestic).
Issue: Whether there was a substantial likelihood of a conviction and whether it was in the public interest to proceed with the prosecution.
Result: Mr. Mines was able to persuade Crown counsel to enter a stay of proceedings. No criminal record.
Charge: Assault x2; Uttering Threats x2.
Issue: Given the rehabilitative steps our client had taken on his own initiative, whether it was necessary for him to be sentenced to a jail term.
Result: Notwithstanding that police had recommended that this matter be treated as a “hate crime”, Mr. Mines was able to persuade Crown counsel to make a joint submission to the Court for a 90 day conditional sentence order with probation to follow. No jail.
Charge: Assault (domestic).
Issue: Whether it was in the public interest to proceed with the criminal charge.
Result: Mr. Mines was able to persuade Crown counsel to proceed by way of a s.810 Recognizance (“Peace Bond”) and to enter a stay of proceedings on the assault charge. No criminal record.
Charge: Assault with a Weapon; Uttering Threats; Mischief to Property.
Issue: Whether there was a substantial likelihood of a conviction.
Result: Mr. Mines was able to persuade Crown counsel that there were frailties in the case regarding the complainant’s credibility and whether our client was acting in self defence. Crown agreed to stay all criminal charges and to proceed by way of a Peace Bond. No criminal record.
Charge: Obstuct Police; Mischief to Property, Possession of a Weapon for a Dangerous Purpose.
Issue: Given the rehabilitative steps that our client took on his own initiative, whether it was in the public interest to proceed with the criminal prosecution.
Result: Mr. Johnson was able to persuade Crown counsel to refer our client to the Alternative Measures Program rather than approve criminal charges. No criminal record.
Charge: Assault (domestic).
Issue: Whether it was in the public interest to proceed with the prosecution.
Result: Mr. Johnson was able to persuade Crown counsel to allow our client into the Alternative Measures Program. Upon our client’s completion of this program, Crown entered a stay of proceedings. No criminal record.
A huge thanks to Michael Mines for getting this criminal charge brought to a fair and appropriate conclusion with a criminal charge being dropped. Michael knows his profession and is well versed in criminal law to seek the best possible outcome for an individual like me, who at 77 years, simply made an honest mistake. […]
Our client had taken responsibility for his actions by pleading guilty in Richmond Provincial Court where he was granted a conditional discharge. Upon being threatened and taunted by his roommate, our client kicked in the door to the roommate’s doo=r and held a meat cleaver to his throat. The Crown appealed sentence. At the sentence […]
