Recent Success – Charged with Impaired Driving Over 80

My client was charged with Impaired Driving and Over 80. After a trial both charges were dismissed.

Allegations

The allegations were that my client was driving home and a citizen called about a possible impaired driver with the license plate number of my client’s vehicle. They were unable to locate the vehicle. They therefore attended at his residence, which was the listed address registered to the vehicle.

The police noticed a vehicle turned into my client’s driveway and immediately pulled behind the vehicle in order to ensure it would not leave. The police attended at the driver side of the vehicle and asked my client to exit and noted the following signs of impairment; fumbling with his wallet for his driver’s license, dropping his driver’s license, attempting to retrieve his driver’s license then missing it, and falling to the ground.

The police then arrested my client for impaired driving. They brought him to the station where he provided two breath samples. Both of which resulted in readings over the legal limit of over 80 mg of alcohol in 100 ml of blood.

Trial Proceedings

At trial I argued that the certificate of analysis for the Over 80 charge was not served on time. Therefore the Over 80 charge was withdrawn.

We proceeded to trial on the impaired driving charge; the in-car video and the booking video were played.

Results

The result was that I argued that the indications of impairment seen on both videos were also commensurate with explanations that were not indicative of impairment.

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Donna V. Pledge, Barrister & Solicitor 

Donna V Pledge, is a highly experienced criminal lawyer in Toronto with over twenty-five years of experience in the area of criminal offences. She has been successfully defending clients since 1992. She has earned the reputation of a tough and no-nonsense lawyer who can get her clients out of any criminal case with either a full acquittal or a very light sentence. Donna Pledge represents her clients in courts all over Ontario.