{"id":9928,"date":"2013-03-01T15:49:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T15:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:81\/wordpress\/?p=9792"},"modified":"2013-03-01T15:49:29","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T15:49:29","slug":"ottawa-man-acquitted-of-a-majority-of-drug-trafficking-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/ottawa-man-acquitted-of-a-majority-of-drug-trafficking-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa man acquitted of a majority of drug trafficking charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man who was accused of masterminding a drug network that had ties to a Hell&#8217;s Angels group was acquitted of many of the charges against him. The 37 year old was arrested for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drugdefence.ca\/Drug-Charges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drug trafficking<\/a>\u00a0in 2011 along with a dozen others for possession and trafficking of marijuana and cocaine as part of a criminal organization.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest came about as the result of a year-long police investigation called &#8220;Project Finale.&#8221; This investigation involved wiretapping and surveillance and netted several arrests. The suspect&#8217;s 25-year-old stepson was also arrested and charged, but he pleaded guilty and received a sentence of just under five years for conspiracy charges as well as attempts to obstruct justice and possession of a handgun.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was found guilty, however, of possession of 958 grams of hashish for the purposes of trafficking. He was released from jail on a $10,000 bond after spending 17 months in custody and his sentencing date was set for late February. The suspect and his wife each posted $5,000 of the bond to secure his release.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, while the justice said she thought there was a &#8220;strong possibility&#8221; of his participation in the drug ring, she noted that the prosecution had been unable to prove his involvement beyond a reasonable doubt. She described the majority of the evidence as &#8220;circumstantial.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The use of circumstantial evidence can sometimes lead to a conviction, yet if a criminal defence attorney can show that there are viable, alternative explanations of the crime, the suspect may not be proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt and, thus, acquitted of the criminal charges.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0Ottawa Citizen, &#8220;Alleged Hell&#8217;s Angels drug ringleader found not guilty of most charges,&#8221; Chloe Fedio, Feb. 22, 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man who was accused of masterminding a drug network that had ties to a Hell&#8217;s Angels group was acquitted of many of the charges against him. The 37 year old was arrested for\u00a0drug trafficking\u00a0in 2011 along with a dozen others for possession and trafficking of marijuana and cocaine as part of a criminal organization. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drug-trafficking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9928","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=9928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}