Case: drug trafficking charges for 1296 grams of cannabis withdrawn despite text-based communication evidence found on mobile phone
Our client’s home was searched by police out of response to an unrelated incident. Drugs were located throughout the property. Although our client wasn’t the target of the warrant, she was charged with drug trafficking due to evidence located on a mobile phone linked to her found at the property also.
Investigators located 1296 grams of cannabis and over $40,000 in cash along with incriminating evidence on a phone linked to our client. At the contesst mention phase of the Court proceedings, our client applied for a sentence indication before a Magistrate who understood that the were issues in the prosecution case preventing an agreement on facts, therefore offered our client a sentence which wouldnt ordinarily be afforded to her if she had pleaded guilty to the prosecution case as it stood at the time.
Our client relied on character references in support of her matter resolving.
Charges/ Ch1 (Traffick Cannabis); Ch2 (Possess Cannabis); Ch3 (Deal with property reasonably susptected to be proceeds of crime)
Result/ Ch1 & Ch3 withdrawn. Sentenced to a $2,000 fine without conviction on Ch2. No further orders.
Our lawyer negotiated with the Prosecution to withdraw the drug trafficking charge over several months. This may have saved our client from receiving a corrections order to complete unpaid community work.