{"id":6098,"date":"2023-11-10T04:33:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T04:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.burncitylegal.com.au\/?p=6098"},"modified":"2023-11-10T04:47:24","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T04:47:24","slug":"contested-hearing-charges-withdrawn-by-prosecution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.burncitylegal.com.au\/?p=6098","title":{"rendered":"Contested Hearing \/ Charges Withdrawn by Prosecution"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"6098\" class=\"elementor elementor-6098\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-293a6917 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"293a6917\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-453038c6\" data-id=\"453038c6\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-744ab24 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"744ab24\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>Case: Vigilante drill-wielding offender chosen by police as victim in bizarre assault case.<\/h3>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f414c4f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f414c4f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Our client attended a business with his father and brother to pick up his ute which had a toolbox fitted. There was a dispute as to the poor quality of the toolbox and our client went to park his ute outside the business premises to negotiate. The business ordered the employees to close the gates so that our client and his family could not leave. A worker armed with a drill entered our client&#8217;s ute assaulting him with it and smashing his infotainment system. Our client pushed the drill man out of his vehicle who then threatened our client&#8217;s family with the drill. Our client punched the drill man who then got up still waving the drill attempting to assault our client with it. Police charged our client as the offender.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6e1ce55 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6e1ce55\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Charges\/ Ch1 (<span style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-5f65334 ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-1505ffc-font-family ), sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-1505ffc-font-size ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-1505ffc-font-weight ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-1505ffc-letter-spacing ); text-transform: var( --e-global-typography-1505ffc-text-transform ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-1505ffc-word-spacing ); background-color: var( --e-global-color-100d932f );\">Recklessly Cause Injury<\/span><span style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-5f65334 ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-1505ffc-font-family ), sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-1505ffc-font-size ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-1505ffc-font-weight ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-1505ffc-letter-spacing ); text-transform: var( --e-global-typography-1505ffc-text-transform ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-1505ffc-word-spacing ); background-color: var( --e-global-color-100d932f );\">); Ch2 (Assault)<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-974b0e9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"974b0e9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Result\/ Withdrawal of all charges at Contested Hearing<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6aec699 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6aec699\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The incident was captured on CCTV which clearly showed the threat to our client and his family. Our lawyer put forward the position that our client acted in self-defence, defence of another, and defence of property. We also argued that by charging the drill man, police are encouraging vigilanteism. Prosecution refused to withdraw our client&#8217;s charges on the clear evidence that the drill man and employees of the business were the offenders. Our client elected to take the matter to a Contested Hearing. In the first 5 minutes the magistrate indicated without hearing any evidence that there will be difficulty finding our client guilty beyond reasonable doubt. This is because our client, his father and brother would give evidence against the drill man, and self-defence would likely be made out due to proportionality of drill vs fist.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Case: Vigilante drill-wielding offender chosen by police as victim in bizarre assault case. Our client attended a business with his father and brother to pick up his ute which had a toolbox fitted. There was a dispute as to the poor quality of the toolbox and our client went to park his ute outside the &#8230; <a title=\"Contested Hearing \/ Charges Withdrawn by Prosecution\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.burncitylegal.com.au\/?p=6098\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Contested Hearing \/ Charges Withdrawn by Prosecution<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[63,47,33],"class_list":["post-6098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-results","tag-recklessly-cause-injury","tag-unlawful-assault","tag-withdrawn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burncitylegal.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burncitylegal.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burncitylegal.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burncitylegal.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burncitylegal.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.burncitylegal.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burncitylegal.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burncitylegal.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burncitylegal.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burncitylegal.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}