J.R. was convicted of sexual assault involving a young man, and was represented by another lawyer at a sentencing hearing in which the Crown was seeking jail time. Three days before his sentencing decision, J.R. hired LAWYER UP to review the sentencing hearing for an appeal. We identified new mitigating factors not raised by the previous lawyer at the sentencing hearing, and successfully argued an application to reopen the sentencing hearing so the judge could hear the new evidence.

R.P. was a career thief who allegedly entered big box stores and made off with thousands of dollars of tools and equipment. In the course of committing the thefts, R.P. threatened to stab store security guards with a knife he claimed to have in his pocket. LAWYER UP successfully won the client’s release on bail, no less than three times, and ultimately arranged for the client to reside on a farm with his employer 50 kilometers away from any big box stores.

While on bail for an aggravated assault charge, A.P. was found in a car with a loaded firearm in his shoulder bag, and a silencer, body armor, and Halloween masks elsewhere in the car. LAWYER UP was successful in winning the A.P.’s release on bail, by pointing out the search of A.P. shoulder bag and car was unlawful and would likely result in the exclusion of the firearm at trial, and the silencer, body armor and Halloween masks could have been located in the trunk of the car, where A.P. would be unaware of them, if other people drove the car.

T.B. was allegedly involved in a shootout involving two groups of young males in a shopping plaza late at night, where it was alleged T.B. was picked up by a friend in a pickup truck from his home before the shootout, and fired a gun at another male in the parking lot. LAWYER UP was successful in securing T.B.’s release on a bail review, by pointing out that the truck photographed near the client’s home before the shooting could have belonged to neighbors who drove similar trucks, and that the shooter may have fired self-defence, as witnesses described them in flight from the victim, who may have been armed themselves, before the shooting.

J.D. was prohibited from driving as a result of an impaired conviction, and allegedly reversed from a R.I.D.E. checkpoint and sped away from police, and on another occasion was involved in a high speed chase with police, where it was alleged J.D. drove so dangerously the police had to call off the chase. LAWYER UP successfully won J.D.’s release on bail four times, despite multiple breaches of his release order, and convinced the Crown to withdraw a number of his charges, by pointing out the police failed to identify J.D. as the driver, and by introducing evidence from J.D.’s family which contradicted evidence that J.D. was the driver.

H.T. was allegedly involved in a shootout involving two groups of young males in a shopping plaza late at night, where it was alleged H.T. was picked up by a friend in a pickup truck from his home before the shootout, and fired a gun at another male in the parking lot. LAWYER UP was successful in securing H.T.’s release on a bail review, by pointing out that the truck photographed near the client’s home before the shooting could have belonged to neighbors who drove similar trucks, and that the shooter may have fired self-defence, as witnesses described them in flight from the victim, who may have been armed themselves, before the shooting.

J.R. was a passenger in a vehicle stopped during an impaired driving investigation. On a search of the vehicle, the police discovered Cannabis in a sealed bag in a closed centre console, which they used to search the client, leading them to discover a loaded handgun in his waistband. LAWYER UP successfully won the client’s release on bail, by pointing out the initial search was unlawful, as was the search of the client’s person, as he could not have had any knowledge of control of the drugs in the closed center console of another person’s vehicle.

D.U. was under investigation by his employer, a federal government investment board, for a $15,000 insurance benefits fraud on the employer. LAWYER UP became involved in the case and successfully negotiated D.U.’s voluntary departure from his employment, with his full pension and vacation benefits intact, avoiding the need for police involvement and protecting D.U.’s employment record.

J.T. was arrested coming outside a Shopper’s Drug Mart with a loaded handgun in his side bag and a quantity of illegal drugs in a rental car he was driving. J.T. had been surveilled coming and going from a home where police found drugs and ammunition in a safe. On a detention review hearing, LAWYER UP secured the client’s release by pointing out issues with the J.T.’s knowledge and control of drugs stashed in the trunk of a rental car, and of items in a locked safe in another person’s home, and in proposing a $100k bond and J.T.’s employment with his father.

V.M. was alleged to have pulled out a 12″ blade from his driver’s side door, threatened to snap a female passenger in half and stuff her in the trunk of his vehicle, and locked the doors after the passenger asked to be let out to call the police. After pointing out the female passenger’s involvement in a criminal fraud with V.M., her motive to lie, and the physical impossibility of a 12″ inch blade fitting in V.M.’s driver’s side door, LAWYER UP persuaded the Crown to withdraw the charges before this case went to trial.