{"id":6503,"date":"2024-10-02T12:55:34","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T12:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.burncitylegal.com.au\/?p=6503"},"modified":"2024-10-02T13:02:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T13:02:48","slug":"series-of-burglary-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.burncitylegal.com.au\/?p=6503","title":{"rendered":"Police Messed Up By Laying Only One Charge And The Wrong Charge"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"6503\" class=\"elementor elementor-6503\" 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Case: Charge of recklessly cause injury withdrawn to no injury<\/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><span style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-primary ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-1b65d42-font-family ), sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-1b65d42-font-size ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-1b65d42-font-weight ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-1b65d42-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-1b65d42-word-spacing ); background-color: var( --e-global-color-100d932f );\">Our client was involved in a dispute at a popular Melbourne nightclub on Chapel st whereby it was alleged he headbutted an individual which he had an argument with. The police Informant took a very long time to charge our client but eventually he received a brief with a single charge for recklessly causing injury. It was only one headbutt so there was no injury fortunately. The appropriate charge in this instance would be an unlawful assault charge which is a summary offence and has a statute of limitations period of 12 months (offender has to be charged within 12 months of date of offence).\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-primary ); font-family: var( --e-global-typography-1b65d42-font-family ), sans-serif; font-size: var( --e-global-typography-1b65d42-font-size ); font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-1b65d42-font-weight ); letter-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-1b65d42-letter-spacing ); word-spacing: var( --e-global-typography-1b65d42-word-spacing ); background-color: var( --e-global-color-100d932f );\">By the time the first mention of the charge in Court, the offence date had passed 12 months. Therefore the police Informant couldnt lay the charge anymore. One of our solicitors raised this issue with a prosecutor and fortunately we had a response from a reasonable prosecutor who agreed and accepted our offer to allow for a withdrawal of charge without costs.\u00a0<\/span><\/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 ; Recklessly cause injury (s18 of the Crimes Act.<\/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 charge.<\/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: Charge of recklessly cause injury withdrawn to no injury Our client was involved in a dispute at a popular Melbourne nightclub on Chapel st whereby it was alleged he headbutted an individual which he had an argument with. The police Informant took a very long time to charge our client but eventually he received &#8230; <a title=\"Police Messed Up By Laying Only One Charge And The Wrong Charge\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.burncitylegal.com.au\/?p=6503\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Police Messed Up By Laying Only One Charge And The Wrong Charge<\/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],"class_list":["post-6503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-results","tag-recklessly-cause-injury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burncitylegal.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6503","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=6503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.burncitylegal.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6503\/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=6503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burncitylegal.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burncitylegal.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}