{"id":10397,"date":"2015-11-18T13:02:11","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T13:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:81\/wordpress\/?p=10397"},"modified":"2015-11-18T13:02:11","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T13:02:11","slug":"building-a-defence-may-be-difficult-after-long-passage-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/building-a-defence-may-be-difficult-after-long-passage-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Building a defence may be difficult after long passage of time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember what you were doing in 1990? Many people probably do not and would agree that was a long time ago. This was likely the case for a 61-year-old Toronto man who was recently arrested and charged with first-degree murder. The man is accused of stabbing a 38-year-old man to death in 1990, in the course of a robbery, while the deceased worked at a gas bar.<\/p>\n<p>After a passage of time some crimes can no longer be charged, even if the evidence against a suspect is strong. Murder is not one of those crimes. This is why, after 25 years,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/crime\/2015\/11\/10\/toronto-police-make-arrest-in-1990-murder.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an arrest was made in connection with the murder<\/a>. According to investigators, updates in technology applied to the re-examination of fingerprints and crime-scene DNA that initially was not helpful but nonetheless stored away was the catalyst for the arrest.<\/p>\n<p>The second look was part of a program Toronto law enforcement recently put into place. Called Toronto Police\u2019s Project Never Give Up, the program is the result of a recent internal review. Its goal is to reduce the unsolved homicides deemed cold cases.<\/p>\n<p>In the best of circumstances it can be difficult to defend against a criminal accusation. This may be particularly true after the passage of time when witnesses, alibis and many forms of physical evidence that could be used to build a case, have faded into the past. In this situation it is even more important that someone accused of a crime contacts a criminal defence lawyer for help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember what you were doing in 1990? Many people probably do not and would agree that was a long time ago. This was likely the case for a 61-year-old Toronto man who was recently arrested and charged with first-degree murder. The man is accused of stabbing a 38-year-old man to death in 1990, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-10397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-violent-crimes","tag-violent-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10397","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=10397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}