Criminal Defense
Aside from defending firearms owners facing Criminal Code or Firearms Act charges, Solomon Friedman also represents individuals charged with all manner of criminal and quasi-criminal offences. Solomon has also defended persons charged under provincial regulatory statutes, such as the Highway Traffic Act, the Liquor Licence Act and the Provincial Offences Act.
The following is a sample of some of the Criminal Code and other matters that Solomon handles:
- Driving offences
- Impaired driving
- Over 0.08
- Dangerous driving
- Property offences
- Theft
- Fraud
- Mischief
- Possession of property obtains by crime
- Violent offences
- Assault
- Assault causing bodily harm
- Aggravated assault
- Manslaughter
- Murder
- Drug offences (Controlled Drugs and Substances Act)
- Possession of a controlled substance
- Possession for the purpose of trafficking
- Trafficking a controlled substance
- Production of a controlled substance
- Sexual offences
- Sexual assault
- Sexual interference
- Child pornography
- Guns and weapons offences
- Prohibited weapons charges
- Prohibited device charges
- Replica firearms charges
- Use of firearm in commission of an offence
- Administration of justice offences
- Breach of undertaking
- Breach of recognizance
- Breach of probation
- Failure to appear
- Obstruction of justice
Successful Cases
Succesfully Defended Client Charged with Drug Charges
Charges Withdrawn
Charges Acquitted due to Unlawful Search
Acquitted
Defended Client from Seizure and Inability to Possess Firearms
Overturned
Defended Client Facing Imprisonment for Possession of an Automatic Weapon
Sentence Reduced
Successfully Expunged Drug Possession with Intent to Sell Charges
Charges Stayed
DUI Charges Dismissed!
Successful Criminal Defense
and Appeal Case