{"id":10357,"date":"2015-09-09T12:19:30","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T12:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:81\/wordpress\/?p=10357"},"modified":"2015-09-09T12:19:30","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T12:19:30","slug":"investigation-following-criminal-charge-could-lead-to-dismissal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/investigation-following-criminal-charge-could-lead-to-dismissal\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation following criminal charge could lead to dismissal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sexual assault charges should of course be taken seriously. When they are pursued by the Crown it is possible that the accused could be found guilty and\u00a0face harsh penalties<\/a>. Ideally, a defense will begin to be crafted during the investigation phase before charges have been levelled. This means someone facing a charge should contact a lawyer as soon as he or she believes that they are under investigation.<\/p>\n

Though stressful, a criminal charge does not automatically mean that someone will be found guilty. There are multiple steps between a charge and the point at which a decision regarding guilt is made. Along the way there are many places where the charges could be dismissed. This is illustrated by a decision recently made by the Crown regarding a sexual assault and criminal harassment charge that was filed against a Toronto man.<\/p>\n

The man, a gynecologist was accused of inappropriately touching a 26-year-old woman he was treating.<\/p>\n

After the man was charged with the crimes, the Crown took another look at the evidence related to the case. An expert report was a part of that evidence. It indicated that there was nothing about the care the man provided the woman that was inappropriate. Accordingly,\u00a0the Crown decided to not pursue the charges<\/a>\u00a0and withdrew them.<\/p>\n

The outcome in a criminal case is never guaranteed. Because of this it is important that those facing charges make sure they have a criminal defence lawyer on their side to make sure their rights are protected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sexual assault charges should of course be taken seriously. When they are pursued by the Crown it is possible that the accused could be found guilty and\u00a0face harsh penalties. Ideally, a defense will begin to be crafted during the investigation phase before charges have been levelled. This means someone facing a charge should contact a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-10357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sexual-assault","tag-sexual-assault"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}