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RECENT SUCCESS
R. v. D.D. | 2025 | BRAMPTON

CHARGE: Second-Degree Murder

• In March 2022, the client called me for legal advice. He had killed someone the night before and needed my help negotiating his surrender. He had gotten into an altercation with a relative who tried to break into his home. The fight spilled out on to their front lawn and in a sudden fit of anger, the client stabbed his cousin dozens of times, 8 serious wounds, 4 of them fatal. After a 3 year battle and two week jury trial, he was acquitted of murder.

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R. v. J.B.A | 2025 | NEWMARKET

CHARGE: Possession of a Firearm, Fentanyl, and Cocaine for the Purpose of Trafficking

• Client was the subject of an 11 month police investigation in which he was “flagged” on a police database as someone who should be investigated for drug charges.  As a result of the flag on his file, police in 3 jurisdictions conducted roadside stops to investigate him on 7 different occasions.  Each stop was a violation of the client’s constitutional rights, as he was never told the true purpose and never informed of his right to remain silent or provided with the opportunity to speak to a lawyer.  Ultimately, his vehicle and home were the subject of a search warrant where police located a loaded handgun, a quantity of cocaine, fentanyl, meth, and cash; all of which become the subject of a successful Charter Application that ended the prosecution with a stay of all charges and a forfeiture order that returned the client’s seized cash.

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R. v. A.V.D. | 2025 | HAMILTON

CHARGE: Firearm Possession

• After a very short period of surveillance, the police obtained a warrant to search for a firearm at the client’s apartment. They arrested him down the street and asked incriminating questions prior to providing him his rights to counsel.  Despite a series of constitutional issues, his first lawyer set a trial challenging only his possession of the firearm and not the Charter violations committed by the police.  Shortly before his trial, he questioned the lawyer’s strategy and ultimately terminated the relationship.  We took a different approach and focused on the police misconduct: the failure to investigate the client, the lack of connection between the alleged crime and the residence, the failure to provide rights to counsel, and the failure to hold off questioning.  We filed our Application and the Crown promptly withdrew all charges.

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R. v. K.W. | 2024 | BRANTFORD

CHARGE: Kidnapping, Robbery with a firearm, Possession of a firearm, Forcible confinement, Assault causing bodily harm.

• The client came to me after representing himself for almost a year and getting nowhere with the crown. He knew his rights had been violated when the police arrested him sleeping in his car but he could not articulate how. It took us 6 months to receive the police body cams which showed that the cops had him under investigation for nearly 40 minutes without giving him his Rights to Counsel and during that time they forced him to create the basis for his own arrest by having him turn on the vehicle to show he had control of it while visibly impaired. After taking the Crown through the series of charter breaches he realized there was no public interest in proceeding and withdrew the charges immediately.

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R. v. K.E. | 2025 | HAMILTON

CHARGE: Break and Enter

• The client was charged with break and enter, along with two co-accused. The co-accused parties took months to move through the pre-trial stages, delaying our client from moving his case forward. As a result of the delays caused by the co-accused, the client’s trial was set to complete 14 days beyond the 18 months ceiling in R. v. Jordan. After hearing arguments from Associate Katrina Friesen, the Judge agreed that the client’s Charter s. 11(b) right to a trial within a reasonable time had been infringed and stayed the charges. Read the decision below.

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