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B.J. retained Ms. Condello to defend him on six charges of Criminal Mischief damage to property for writing in permanent ink at a bus station.\u00a0 The client saw graffiti of a swastika and wrote next it \u201cJesus is Lord\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 Police identified the client and determined that the client was also responsible for graffiti of swastikas.\u00a0 The Crown screened the matter as a hate crime and was seeking jail.\u00a0 Ms. Condello was able to show through circumstantial evidence that the client was not the person responsible for the hate crime writings and was trying to counter the hate writing with Christian values and not hate.\u00a0 The client paid restitution for damages caused by his writing only and the charges were all withdrawn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","success_category":[128,118],"class_list":["post-30901","success_story","type-success_story","status-publish","hentry","success_category-perjury-public-mischief-mischief-to-property-and-breach-of-court-orders","success_category-all-success-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nrlawyers.com\/6ixDev-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/success_story\/30901","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=30901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"success_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nrlawyers.com\/6ixDev-v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/success_category?post=30901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}