{"id":863,"date":"2011-10-14T11:39:49","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T15:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/?p=863"},"modified":"2018-11-13T14:34:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T19:34:00","slug":"failing-to-remain-drug-and-breach-charges-withdrawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/failing-to-remain-drug-and-breach-charges-withdrawn\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

My client was charged with Failing to Remain at the scene of an accident, Possession of a Controlled Substance<\/a> and Breach of an Undertaking to a Peace Officer. \u00a0These charges all stemmed from a single motor vehicle accident in which it was alleged that my client had crashed his car and afterwards had fled the scene. \u00a0At the time he was on an Undertaking from previous outstanding charges with conditions that he not drive and that he not consume alcohol or non-prescription drugs. \u00a0The police also found a garbage bag with approximately one pound of marijuana outside the car. \u00a0I convinced the Crown that although there was some circumstantial evidence to suggest my client had been driving the vehicle, there was not enough to sustain a finding of guilt at trial. \u00a0Ultimately the Crown agreed to withdraw the charges in return for a $300 charitable donation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My client was charged with Failing to Remain at the scene of an accident, Possession of a Controlled Substance and Breach of an Undertaking to a Peace Officer. \u00a0These charges all stemmed from a single motor vehicle accident in which it was alleged that my client had crashed his car and afterwards had fled the scene. \u00a0At the time he was on an Undertaking from previous outstanding charges with conditions that he not drive and that he not consume alcohol or non-prescription drugs. \u00a0The police also found a garbage bag with approximately one pound of marijuana outside the car. \u00a0I convinced the Crown that although there was some circumstantial evidence to suggest my client had been driving the vehicle, there was not enough to sustain a finding of guilt at trial. \u00a0Ultimately the Crown agreed to withdraw the charges in return for a $300 charitable donation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[39,23,38,27,31],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863"}],"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=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}