{"id":870,"date":"2011-10-14T11:50:41","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T15:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/?p=870"},"modified":"2018-11-13T14:34:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T19:34:00","slug":"entertainment-district-assault-charges-withdrawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/entertainment-district-assault-charges-withdrawn\/","title":{"rendered":"Entertainment District Assault Charges Withdrawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My client was charged with several counts of <a title=\"Assault\" href=\"http:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/charges-defended\/assault\/\">Assault<\/a> and <a title=\"What is \u201cBodily Harm\u201d?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/charges-defended\/assault\/what-is-bodily-harm\/\">Assault Bodily Harm<\/a> stemming from a brawl that occurred at a club in the entertainment district. \u00a0After a meeting with the Crown prosecutor and a judge where I argued that the Crown would have a very difficult time proving the charges against my client considering the chaotic scene at the club and the alcohol involved, the Crown agreed to withdraw the charges against my client in return for him entering into a peace bond requiring him to stay out of downtown Toronto for one year. \u00a0This was not a problem for my client who did not reside in the downtown core and had no reason to go there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My client was charged with several counts of Assault and Assault Bodily Harm stemming from a brawl that occurred at a club in the entertainment district. \u00a0After a meeting with the Crown prosecutor and a judge where I argued that the Crown would have a very difficult time proving the charges against my client considering the chaotic scene at the club and the alcohol involved, the Crown agreed to withdraw the charges against my client in return for him entering into a peace bond requiring him to stay out of downtown Toronto for one year. \u00a0This was not a problem for my client who did not reside in the downtown core and had no reason to go there.<\/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":[52,34,23,44,24],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870"}],"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=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}