{"id":30046,"date":"2025-12-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nrlawyers.com\/6ixDev-v2\/success-story\/rex-v-j-x-2025-30046\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T12:00:00","slug":"rex-v-j-x-2025-30046","status":"publish","type":"success_story","link":"https:\/\/nrlawyers.com\/6ixDev-v2\/success-story\/rex-v-j-x-2025-30046\/","title":{"rendered":"Rex v. J.X., (2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a three-day trial in the Ontario Court of Justice, Brampton, a directed verdict of not guilty was granted after cross-examination of the complainant was completed.\u00a0 The charges of Assault x 3, Choking x 3, Forcible Confinement x 2, and Threatening Death x 2 were dismissed.\u00a0 J.X. had a two and half year tumultuous relationship with his girlfriend.\u00a0 In May of 2022 he attempted to end the relationship because it was too toxic.\u00a0 The complainant would not relent and refused to end the relationship.\u00a0 Over a short period of time, J.X. reluctantly agreed to continue the relationship.\u00a0 He agreed for her to move into his apartment.\u00a0 After about a month of living together, the complainant became violent and would get very angry at small issues.\u00a0 Both J.X. and the complainant had difficulty regulating their anger and de-escalating disagreements.\u00a0\u00a0 Unfortunately, many arguments led to physical violence.\u00a0 In November of 2022, J.W., after a brief argument, told the complainant to leave his apartment and served her with an eviction notice. The complainant left to a nearby Starbucks, called police and alleged a brutal assault including choking and prolong beating.\u00a0 J.X. was charged with multiple domestic violence offences including historical allegations.\u00a0 The complainant provided to police some pictures of injuries.\u00a0 Joseph Neuberger and Diana Davison were retained to defend J.X.\u00a0 Daisy Zhang, senior paralegal was assigned to assist.\u00a0 The defence investigation included taking Mr. J.X.\u2019s laptop computer to a forensic tech expert to extract deleted WeChat messages, and pictures of injuries J.X. sustained.\u00a0 The extraction report, original and translated messages and the photos of injuries were provided to the Crown through defence disclosure.\u00a0 The extraction report demonstrated that someone on November 22nd, 2022, the day the complainant called police, had deleted vast amounts of data from J.X.\u2019s computer.\u00a0 The matter proceeded to trial.\u00a0 Joseph Neuberger extensively cross-examined the complainant on several areas including her lack of injuries on November 22nd despite the brutal assault she alleged; the messages of the break-up attempt that clearly demonstrated that the complainant was highly volatile, aggressive, and abusive and the photos of the J.X.\u2019s injuries.\u00a0 Cross-examination crossed into other areas including the deletion of J.X.\u2019s data from his laptop.\u00a0 The complainant reluctantly admitted in cross that she access his computer and deleted data thereby committing a criminal offence of mischief to data.\u00a0 It was clear that she sought to delete all incriminating evidence of her own abusive conduct.\u00a0 Cross-examination ultimately uncovered that the complainant was verbally and physically violent for which J.X. defended himself against.\u00a0 Abuse of male partners is real.\u00a0 The complainant was unphased at being caught in obvious false evidence and untruths.\u00a0 The Crown took a very fair and judicious approach and agreed that J.X. must be found not guilty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","success_category":[118,119],"class_list":["post-30046","success_story","type-success_story","status-publish","hentry","success_category-all-success-stories","success_category-sexual-assault-domestic-assault-and-other-violent-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nrlawyers.com\/6ixDev-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/success_story\/30046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nrlawyers.com\/6ixDev-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/success_story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nrlawyers.com\/6ixDev-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/success_story"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nrlawyers.com\/6ixDev-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"success_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nrlawyers.com\/6ixDev-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/success_category?post=30046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}