DUI Lawyer Dartmouth
DUI Lawyer Dartmouth: When you are charged with impaired driving in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, the police normally release you after signing a promise to appear to court. The court date is for your arraignment. It is important to have a lawyer prior to that first court date. To effectively represent you, a lawyer will want to obtain your initial disclosure package and review it with you as quickly as possible. Delay with respect to providing you your disclosure can work against the crown because every person charged in Canada has the right to a trial without an unreasonable delay persuade to Section 11(b) of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
The Covid 19 pandemic has caused significant backlog in the courts throughout Canada and Dartmouth Provincial Court is not an exception.
After your lawyer received and reviews your initial disclosure package, often, a good lawyer will identify other information that you are entitled to that the police have not provide. Your lawyer can request this information and seek to use it to demonstrate that there is reasonable doubt as to your guilt or that your Charter rights were violated in the arrest or detention.
DUI lawyer Dartmouth: Further delay in the crown producing the additional materials requested by your defence lawyer is attributed to the crown. In the case of R. v. Jordan, 2016 SCC 27, the Supreme Court of Canada explained the law referring accused persons potentially getting the charges thrown out on the basis of delay.
There has not been a Supreme Court of Canada case since Covid that has explained how the delay caused by the pandemic will impact the assessment of delay.
We are a network of criminal lawyers that practice in the Halifax Regional Municipality and beyond. We seek to provide clients access to the most effective lawyer to beat their specific charges.
In the area of impaired driving charges, Laura McCarthy and other lawyers have proven to have exceptional skills and their track record with obtaining acquittals is impressive to say the least. We operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
If you are facing an impaired driving charge, call us today.
