Assault & Attempted Kidnapping (Calgary) – Counsel Withdrew

Charges:
CC: s.279(1)(A) – Kidnapping / Child abduction, s.267(B) – Assault Causing Bodily Harm x 2, s.279(2) – Forcible Confinement, s.270(1)(A) – Assault Police Officer x 2.

Allegations:
My client opened a car door, grabbed the right arm of a 9 year-old girl, and violently tried to pull her out of the vehicle.  Her mother screamed and grabbed her daughter’s left arm and pulled against my client’s efforts to take her daughter.  She was crying and screaming hysterically for help.  A man passing by heard this and ran toward them to help, so my client ran away.  The man chased after my client, caught up to him a few blocks away, escorted him back to the scene, and detained him until the police arrived.  During an interview at the police station, my client became agitated, opened the door, and tried to leave.  The police officer tried to stop him. My client fought with him, then several other police officers arrived running toward the room, and forcibly tackled him to the ground.  In the process, he punched an officer in the mouth.  On a different date, while in custody, after being detained and held at the Southern Alberta Forensic Psychiatry Centre, my client was waiting for his medication, when a nurse and Correctional Officer walked by him.  He stood up suddenly and punched the nurse in the face for no apparent reason.  When the officer noticed what occurred, and made eye contact with my client, he immediately began attacking the officer, and punching her in the head repeatedly.  After she managed strike him back, he ran away and locked himself inside his cell.

Result:
As a result of a conflict of interest, I had to withdraw from the record before Trial.

Charges:
CC: s.266 – Assault.

Allegations:
My client had an argument with his wife because she transferred a $50,000 payment from their joint account to her own account, and refused to transfer it back.  My client prevented her from leaving the house, slapped her in the face several times, and took her purse away from her.  She called police.  He tried to leave, but she was still holding onto her purse tightly, so he pushed her, causing her to fall backwards, and hitting her head on the floor.  She told police that the abuse was ongoing, and was recently escalating.  A couple of weeks before, he assaulted her, threatened to kill her, and burned her arm with a hot frying pan.

Result:
Charge Withdrawn.  Resolved with a Peace Bond.

Charges:    CC: s.151 – Sexually Touching a Minor, s.271 – Sexual Assault, s.270(1)(B) – Assault with Intent to Resist Arrest, s.129(A) – Resisting Arrest.

Allegations:
My client was at the Grey Eagle Casino Event Centre for a concert.  He was intoxicated and approached a random girl there, placing his hands on her lower back and buttocks.  She notified a security guard, who then tried to force my client to leave.  However, he resisted and became aggressive with security.  When police intervened, and tried to place my client under arrest, he assaulted a police officer, grabbing him and ripping his uniform, and tried to strike at other officers.  He was wrestled to the ground and subdued.  After being brought back to his feet, he tried to take a police officer’s service pistol.  Again, he was wrestled to the floor and subdued.  As they were escorting him outside the building, he was angry and swearing and kicked at a glass panel door.

Result:
Charges Withdrawn.  My client received a Conditional Discharge for obstruction.

Charges:
CC: s.266 – Assault x 2, s.264.1(1)(A) – Uttering Threats

Allegations:
One one occasion, my client had an argument with his girlfriend earlier in the morning.  Then, while she was having a coffee in the garage, he grabbed her from behind and shook her violently, causing her coffee to spill all over her face and clothing.  On another occasion, my client angrily walked past his girlfriend’s daughter and body-checked her very hard, causing her to fall down.  On another occasion, he threatened to smash his girlfriend’s head against the wall and to break to her neck.  He also threatened to burn her with a cigarette.

Result:
Charges Withdrawn.  Resolved with a Peace Bond.

Charges:
CC: s.266 – Assault (Baby)

Allegations:
Child and Family Services were contacted by the hospital in relation to suspicious bruising on a 1 year-old boy, after his mother brought him in for an examination.  She indicated that the injuries occurred while he was staying with his father (her ex-husband) over the weekend.  His buttocks were bruised and marked from excessive spanking, and his genitals were swollen also from being spanked excessively.  When the father indicated that he was out of town and left the baby with his girlfriend, my client, she denied any knowledge of how those injuries could have gotten there.  However, the guilt was eating her up, so she turned herself the next day at the RCMP detachment, and confessed to being responsible for hurting the child out of frustration because he wouldn’t stop crying.

Result:
Charges Withdrawn.  Following extensive resolution discussions, as well as the preparation of a Pre-Sentence Report and a Psychological Assessment, I managed to obtain for my client a Conditional Discharge.