{"id":879,"date":"2011-10-14T11:59:21","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T15:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/?p=879"},"modified":"2018-11-13T14:34:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T19:34:00","slug":"drug-and-resisting-arrest-charges-withdrawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/drug-and-resisting-arrest-charges-withdrawn\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug and Resisting Arrest Charges Withdrawn"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a long night of drinking at a bar, N.G. was staggering home when he was approached by the police who, after speaking with my client, gave him a ticket for being intoxicated in a public place. \u00a0My client was upset by this and spat in the officer\u2019s face. \u00a0This in turn upset the officer who attempted to arrest N.G. \u00a0An altercation ensued and my client was ultimately arrested and charged with Assault Resist Arrest<\/a> as well as Possession of a Controlled Substance<\/a> since they found marijuana in his pocket. \u00a0My client admitted to me that he had issues with alcohol and agreed to go for treatment. \u00a0He also participated in a drug diversion program in return for having the Possession charge withdrawn. \u00a0I was then able to convince the Crown that my client was addressing his problems and that he was a good young man with a bright future. \u00a0The Crown ultimately agreed to withdraw the assault charges against my client in return for him doing some community service. [CHARGES WITHDRAWN][NO CRIMINAL RECORD]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a long night of drinking at a bar, N.G. was staggering home when he was approached by the police who, after speaking with my client, gave him a ticket for being intoxicated in a public place. \u00a0My client was upset by this and spat in the officer\u2019s face. \u00a0This in turn upset the officer who attempted to arrest N.G. \u00a0An altercation ensued and my client was ultimately arrested and charged with Assault Resist Arrest as well as Possession of a Controlled Substance since they found marijuana in his pocket. \u00a0My client admitted to me that he had issues with alcohol and agreed to go for treatment. \u00a0He also participated in a drug diversion program in return for having the Possession charge withdrawn. \u00a0I was then able to convince the Crown that my client was addressing his problems and that he was a good young man with a bright future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10,5],"tags":[52,23,54,24,31],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879"}],"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=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}