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Charges of Threatening Death and Cruelty to Animal withdrawn in the Ontario Court of Justice. The client was charged with having threatened to kill his spouse during an argument. His former spouse also claimed that T.M. had killed her dog by kicking it to death. She claimed that T.M. had confessed to the crime. T.M. hired Christopher Assié to defend himself. Counsel conducted a judicial pre-trial and ultimately scheduled a two-day trial. Prior to the trial, counsel had provided the Crown with evidence that the complainant had recanted her testimony and pointed that the evidence that the Crown wished to introduce regarding the bad character evidence of T.M. was inadmissible. Prior to the trial date, the Crown re-assessed the reasonable prospect of conviction in light of the new evidence they had and they simply withdrew the charges.