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Client found not guilty after four day trial in the Ontario Court of Justice on charges of Sexual Assault x 2, Kidnapping, Forcible Confinement and Utter Threat. Client got married at 19 to a young lady also 19 who was a Visa student. The marriage was primarily for helping the young lady get status in Canada, but the two came to have affection for each other. However, early on into the relationship Z.C. was discovered to be cheating and this caused a series of high conflict arguments and must turmoil over a six month period of the marriage. At the end of six months, the two separated. In October of 2016, the complainant attended Z.C.’s home and smashed his car. While Z.C. was following her back to her residence (the two had separated), police were called and the complainant alleged the Z.C. had committed two very serious sexual assaults, and a host of other serious offences. Joseph Neuberger was retained as the criminal defence lawyer. There was a team placed on the file with Daisy Zhang, a senior law clerk and a senior paralegal Grace. A large volume of evidence was obtained including two statements; messages and letters as well as statements from alleged witnesses. The case eventually went to trial. Joseph Neuberger and the defence team obtained undisclosed messages sent by the complainant to Z.C. and monitored various social media forums in which the complainant was posting material that showed considerable animus about the cheating but nothing about the alleged violence. At trial, Joseph Neuberger extensively crossed examined the complainant on inconsistencies in her statements in addition put hundreds of messages to the complainant contradicting the sequence of events and the implausibility of events. In addition, during the trial, the complainant continued to post on social media, and on the second day or cross-examination of the complainant, Joseph Neuberger put to the complainant several posts that were highly aggressive in relation to Z.C. and showed a possible fabrication of a letter that she said the complainant wrote. The complainant initially lied about the social media posts, but under continued cross-examination with more posts being shown to the complainant, she relented and admitted the posts. The complainant alleged however that Z.C. had hacked into her account to manipulate the posts and other messages, but the defence expert was able to show that this allegation was false. By the end of the trial, the Court determined that there was insufficient evidence to convict Z.C. of the Sexual and other charges. The client was found not guilty.