{"id":848,"date":"2011-09-14T11:18:38","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T15:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/?p=848"},"modified":"2018-11-13T14:34:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T19:34:01","slug":"drunk-driving-charges-dropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/drunk-driving-charges-dropped\/","title":{"rendered":"Drunk Driving Charges Dropped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My client was charged with<a title=\"Impaired Care or Control\" href=\"http:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/charges-defended\/impaired-driving\/different-drinking-and-driving-charges\/care-or-control\/\"> Impaired Care or Control<\/a> and <a title=\"Over 80\" href=\"http:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/charges-defended\/impaired-driving\/different-drinking-and-driving-charges\/over-80\/\">Over 80<\/a>. \u00a0After the trial began and the arresting officer testified, I convinced the Crown that they had significant problems with their case. \u00a0The Crown subsequently agreed to drop the drinking and driving charges and offered my client a plea to Careless Driving under the Highway Traffic Act instead. \u00a0I pointed out to the Crown that my client had not been driving and therefore could not enter a plea to Careless Driving. \u00a0Ultimately the Crown agreed to having my client enter a guilty plea to being Intoxicated in a Public Place contrary to the Ontario Liquor Licence Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My client was charged with Impaired Care or Control and Over 80. \u00a0After the trial began and the arresting officer testified, I convinced the Crown that they had significant problems with their case. \u00a0The Crown subsequently agreed to drop the drinking and driving charges and offered my client a plea to Careless Driving under the Highway Traffic Act instead. \u00a0I pointed out to the Crown that my client had not been driving and therefore could not enter a plea to Careless Driving. \u00a0Ultimately the Crown agreed to having my client enter a guilty plea to being Intoxicated in a Public Place contrary to the Ontario Liquor Licence Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3,8],"tags":[23,17],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848"}],"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=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}