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Charge of Assault with Weapon withdrawn prior to setting a trial date, Newmarket Court. X.L. and the complainant had a relationship for a short period of time. When X.L. broke up with the complainant, the complainant posted some pictures of X.L. and her son in Wechat, and in an emotional moment and made bad comments about their relationship history. X.L. went to his place asking him to delete the posts, but he refused. X.L. took his phone from the table and deleted the post. The complainant called the police alleging X.L. hit him in his chest with the phone. X.L. was charged with assault with weapon. X.L. retained Daisy Zhang of Neuberger & Partners, Toronto Criminal Lawyers, to defend the charge. After obtaining and reviewing the statements of the complaint and the police officers’ notes, Daisy found one of officer noted X.L had a bad shoulders and could not be handcuffed. Daisy contacted X.L. and confirmed that X.L had a serious frozen shoulder so that it is even difficult for her to lift the arm for dressing. Then Daisy obtained the medical report from X.L.’s family doctor and provided it to the Crown. Through extensive discussion with the Crown, The Crown agreed there is a reasonable doubt that she hit the complaint by phone with bad shoulder. The charge was withdrawn.