{"id":855,"date":"2011-10-14T11:27:59","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T15:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/?p=855"},"modified":"2018-11-13T14:34:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T19:34:01","slug":"assault-causing-bodily-harm-acquittal-from-unreliable-witnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/assault-causing-bodily-harm-acquittal-from-unreliable-witnesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Assault Causing Bodily Harm Acquittal from Unreliable Witnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"

My client had been charged with Assault Causing Bodily Harm<\/a>. \u00a0Other lawyers had told my client that he stood very little chance of winning at trial and that they were able to negotiate a deal with the Crown for a suspended sentence, meaning that my client would have avoided going to jail. \u00a0He still, however,would have been placed on probation and most significantly, he would end up with a criminal record. \u00a0My client was convinced of his innocence because he felt that he had acted in self defence and was not prepared to enter a guilty plea. \u00a0At trial, I was able to establish that the complainant and other Crown witnesses at trial could not be believed. \u00a0Ultimately both the Crown and the judge thought my client should be acquitted which is what happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My client had been charged with Assault Causing Bodily Harm. \u00a0Other lawyers had told my client that he stood very little chance of winning at trial and that they were able to negotiate a deal with the Crown for a suspended sentence, meaning that my client would have avoided going to jail. \u00a0He still, however,would have been placed on probation and most significantly, he would end up with a criminal record. \u00a0My client was convinced of his innocence because he felt that he had acted in self defence and was not prepared to enter a guilty plea. \u00a0At trial, I was able to establish that the complainant and other Crown witnesses at trial could not be believed. \u00a0Ultimately both the Crown and the judge thought my client should be acquitted which is what happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[33,34],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}