{"id":868,"date":"2011-10-14T11:47:25","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T15:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/?p=868"},"modified":"2018-11-13T14:34:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T19:34:00","slug":"obstructing-justice-charges-withdrawn-no-jail-time-for-fraud-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/obstructing-justice-charges-withdrawn-no-jail-time-for-fraud-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Obstructing Justice Charges Withdrawn, No Jail Time for Fraud Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My client, who had a criminal record, was charged with Obstructing Justice (a straight indictable offence) and <a title=\"Fraud\" href=\"http:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/charges-defended\/fraud\/\">Fraud<\/a> for passing himself off as a lawyer and attempting to represent an individual charged with a criminal offence. \u00a0These were very serious allegations and the Crown was seeking a jail term. \u00a0On the date set for a preliminary inquiry, I had a meeting with the judge and the Crown attorney. \u00a0At the meeting, I managed to convince the Crown not to proceed on the Obstruct charge after arguing that my client\u2019s actions did not make out the elements of that particular charge. My client then entered a guilty plea to the fraud charge. \u00a0At sentencing, the Crown still sought a jail term but I successfully convinced the judge to impose a suspended sentence with probation instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My client, who had a criminal record, was charged with Obstructing Justice (a straight indictable offence) and Fraud for passing himself off as a lawyer and attempting to represent an individual charged with a criminal offence. \u00a0These were very serious allegations and the Crown was seeking a jail term. \u00a0On the date set for a preliminary inquiry, I had a meeting with the judge and the Crown attorney. \u00a0At the meeting, I managed to convince the Crown not to proceed on the Obstruct charge after arguing that my client\u2019s actions did not make out the elements of that particular charge. My client then entered a guilty plea to the fraud charge. \u00a0At sentencing, the Crown still sought a jail term but I successfully convinced the judge to impose a suspended sentence with probation instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[25,43,27,42],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868"}],"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=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}