{"id":30675,"date":"2019-12-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nrlawyers.com\/6ixDev-v2\/success-story\/regina-v-j-b-2019-30675\/"},"modified":"2019-12-28T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T12:00:00","slug":"regina-v-j-b-2019-30675","status":"publish","type":"success_story","link":"https:\/\/nrlawyers.com\/6ixDev-v2\/success-story\/regina-v-j-b-2019-30675\/","title":{"rendered":"Regina v. J.B. (2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charges of Theft Under x 4, Fraud Under x 4, Traffic in fraudulent credit card data x 4 and Utter forged Documents, all withdrawn in the Ontario Court of Justice, Newmarket, after extensive pre-trials.\u00a0 J.B. was charged with fraudulent related offences arising from the use and theft of money and credit information from co-workers at his employment.\u00a0 Joseph Neuberger was retained as the criminal defence lawyer.\u00a0 Joseph Neuberger interviewed J.B. and it was apparent that at the time of the alleged offences, J.B. was heavily using alcohol and drugs, in likely an effort to self-medicate related to an underlying mental health issue.\u00a0 A forensic psychologist and a forensic psychiatrist were retained to conduct therapy and a full assessment.\u00a0 The assessments noted that J.B. was suffering a psychosis prior to and at the time of the offences.\u00a0 All reports were turned over to the Crown with extensive medical records.\u00a0 After numerous pre-trials with the assigned Crown a plan was set out for continued therapy and then if successful in therapy for J.B. to sign a common law peace bond and all charges withdrawn.\u00a0 J.B. did well in therapy and treatment. Accordingly, all charges were withdrawn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","success_category":[125,118],"class_list":["post-30675","success_story","type-success_story","status-publish","hentry","success_category-fraud-theft-breach-of-trust-and-financial-crimes","success_category-all-success-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nrlawyers.com\/6ixDev-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/success_story\/30675","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=30675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"success_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nrlawyers.com\/6ixDev-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/success_category?post=30675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}