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Good Behaviour Bond for Using Pistol on Security Staff at Hotel
Our client is a serving member of the Australian armed forces. He attended Sydney Olympic Park with a group of friends at around 11am to watch a sporting event, and drank several beers over the course of the day. The...
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Client Avoids Conviction After Assaulting Bus Driver
Our client was charged with ‘Assault Occasioning Actual Bodily Harm’ after wrestling a bus driver to the ground and then striking him to the stomach, legs and arms causing bruising and abrasions. The incident occurred way back on 8th October...
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Not Guilty of Affray and Common Assault
The Magistrate has found our 27 year old client ‘not guilty’ of Affray and Common Assault after a full-day hearing in Downing Centre Local Court. Our client is a serving officer of the Australian Defence Force and was a member of...
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Conviction Appeal Successful for Client who was on a Suspended Sentence
The Presiding Judge in Downing Centre District Court has overturned the Local Court’s guilty verdict against our 34 year old client who under a ‘suspended sentence’. Our client pleaded guilty to Robbery In Company late last year and was placed...
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Client avoids Criminal Record after Assaulting a Security Guard
The Magistrate in Downing Centre Local Court was persuaded not to record a criminal conviction against our 29 year old client who punched a security guard several times to the face causing bruising and swelling. Our client and his friend...
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Assault Charges & AVO (domestic violence related) Dropped
Police have withdrawn the charge of Reckless Wounding and AVO (domestic violence related) against our 26 year old client after our defence team prepared two detailed sets of written submissions requesting withdrawal and pushed relentlessly for the case to be...
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Not Guilty of Serious Assault Charges
The jury in Downing Centre District Court found our client ‘not guilty’ of all charges including Causing Grievous Bodily Harm with Intent after a difficult 9 day trial. The charges arose from an allegation that our client and another man...
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Client Avoids Criminal Conviction after Drug Supply Charges Reduced to Drug Possession
Our 21 year old client was charged with drug supply after police observed him smoking crystal methylamphetamine (‘ice’) through a glass pipe in the driver seat of his car. Police searched the car and located more ‘ice’ in a small...
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Successful District Court Severity Appeals for Drug Possession Charges
Two young men and one young woman who pleaded ‘guilty’ in Deniliquin Local Court to numerous charges of ‘drug possession’ have had their convictions overturned on appeal to Downing Centre District Court. The charges arose after police applied for a...
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Not Guilty of All Sexual Assault Charges
The Presiding Judge in Downing Centre District Court delivered verdicts of ‘Not Guilty’ for our 54 year old client who was charged with 7 counts of ‘sexual intercourse with child between 16 and 18 years old in special care’. The...
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