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Client acquitted after an eight day jury trial in Toronto, Superior Court, of charges of Domestic Assault, Assault with a Weapon, Weapons Dangerous, Use Imitation Firearm, Assault Causing Bodily Harm.   The client was in a one year relationship and in November of 2016 he moved in with his girlfriend, one of the complainants.  K.W. left for China in December to visit family and while away complainant number one sent text messages breaking up with him and telling him that she has packed all of his belongings and place them in his car.  This happened to have included a bb gun.  When K.W. arrived home he had discovered that she had removed $6,000.00 from his account.  K.W. went to confront his girlfriend and she did not want to speak.  He left but then returned about half an hour later after she contacted him about their cat.  He returned and was confronted by her new boyfriend.  A fight broke out and police were eventually called and the client was charged with several offences.  Joseph Neuberger was retained as the defence lawyer.  K.W. was initially charged with use firearm, however, defence lawyer Joseph Neuberger hired an expert, and established that the projectile speed was less than that found by the police expert and the charge was down graded to imitation firearm.  Further, a defence investigator was hired to take additional statements.  Joseph Neuberger set the matter down for a preliminary hearing and cross-examined the two complainants in a manner toward developing the defence. It was very help and then in preparation for trial spend considerable time preparing the client to testify and drafting the cross-examinations of all of the Crown witnesses.  After two days of deliberations, the jury found K.W. not guilty on all charges, including Domestic Assault, Assault with Weapon, Assault Causing Bodily Harm, Use Imitation Firearm and Weapons Dangerous.