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M.F. was charged with Assault, Assault with Weapon, and Breach of Recognizance/Peace Bond out of 1000 Finch courthouse, Toronto. M.F. was bound by a s. 810 peace bond at the time of her conflict with her husband. It was alleged that M.F. became jealous over her husband’s text messages she saw on his phone and started to hit him. Furthermore, it was alleged that she took her laptop and started hitting her husband with her laptop. The husband called police and M.F. was arrested. M.F retained Mariya Protsenko from Neuberger and Partners LLP, Toronto Criminal Lawyers. The aggravating factor was the fact that M.F. was previously charged with a Domestic Assault on her ex-husband and she entered into a s.810 peace. Mariya put together a large volume of information on the client – background, employment, status in Canada, text messages with the husband, photos provided by the client, as well as the client’s version of events that would ultimately have been her Defence at trial. Mariya had a number of discussions with the Crown Attorney and encouraged the Crown Attorney to wait until M.F. completed counseling and the counseling report is produced. At the end, the therapy report was excellent, and the Crown recognized deficiencies with the complainant husband’s evidence on the assault allegations. The Crown Attorney agreed to have M.F. enter a common law peace bond and the charges against her were withdrawn.