My client was charged with Possession of a Controlled Substance stemming from a police search of his vehicle. \u00a0He had intentions of going to medical school in the United States and could not face the prospect of a conviction for a drug offence. \u00a0At first he tried to handle the matter without hiring a lawyer, and the Crown\u2019s position was tough \u2014 they wanted to proceed on the charge and would not consider any sort of diversion program. \u00a0After T. came to see me, I reviewed the disclosure and had a meeting with the Crown to negotiate my client\u2019s position. \u00a0Within a month, the charged were dropped, and medical school is still in the cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My client was charged with Possession of a Controlled Substance stemming from a police search of his vehicle. \u00a0He had intentions of going to medical school in the United States and could not face the prospect of a conviction for a drug offence. \u00a0At first he tried to handle the matter without hiring a lawyer, and the Crown\u2019s position was tough \u2014 they wanted to proceed on the charge and would not consider any sort of diversion program. \u00a0After T. came to see me, I reviewed the disclosure and had a meeting with the Crown to negotiate my client\u2019s position. \u00a0Within a month, the charged were dropped, and medical school is still in the cards.<\/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":[23,32,31],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853"}],"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=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}