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Charges of Conspiracy to Commit Robbery and Robbery stayed after a four day preliminary hearing in the Ontario Court of Justice. F.S. was alleged to have been the mastermind and “get away driver” of the robbery of $300,000 in money and bonds. The actual take on the alleged robbery was far less. There was cell phone records and cell tower evidence allegedly putting the client in touch with the two other co-accused parties and in the vicinity of the robbery. Defence lawyer Joseph Neuberger aggressively attacked the cell phone and cell tower evidence as well as aggressively cross-examined the main crown witness establishing that F.S. was not involved. Further, upon an application for the Crown to cross-examine their own witness, to rebut an issue of a forced statement by police, Joseph Neuberger established in cross-examining the police officer who took the statement, that there was a seven minute gap between the actual commencement of the statement and the time the witness was brought into the interview room that was not accounted for. Thus, the gap undermined the crown’s assertion that the statement was voluntary. For all of these reasons, the Crown stayed the charges.