| silvertable58 |
| hi my friend just moved here and he got pulled over and was told he had a warrent fo not showing up for court as a witness. he was told he had to go back to ontario and turn himself in..its been 2 years already.. is my friend screwed or what? |
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| dtjohnst |
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Originally posted by silvertable58
hi my friend just moved here and he got pulled over and was told he had a warrent fo not showing up for court as a witness. he was told he had to go back to ontario and turn himself in..its been 2 years already.. is my friend screwed or what?
Best advice I can give, call a lawyer. There's so many things involved in this one, that there's no way anyone but a lawyer could possibly determine how best to proceed and what the repercussions of various actions are. |
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| silvertable58 |
| yea sucks ..he was a witness..and the cop told him to tell him what happen and he wont have to go court but they lied lol. |
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| dtjohnst |
| If he received a summons to appear, he should've gone despite what a cop said. It should say something to that effect on the summons. |
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| DeathBy240 |
He was probably charged with failing to appear. IIRC, witnesses can be charged with that if they are subpoenaed. If that is this case, the justice system isn't going to just forget about it. They don't like having to waste their time booking trials that dont go ahead, as there is already such a backlog.
I can't imagine they would be too hard on him, but he should talk to a lawyer for sure. |
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| GOT BOOST |
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Originally posted by silvertable58
hi my friend just moved here and he got pulled over and was told he had a warrent fo not showing up for court as a witness. he was told he had to go back to ontario and turn himself in..its been 2 years already.. is my friend screwed or what?
Hi silvertable58,
I agree with the people making reccomendations to call a lawyer,
Best option is to make a few calls to a few lawyers. Find out who is well versed with this sort of thing. I am not certain if the rules and laws differ from province to province on this aspect or not. I would also suggest contacting a lawer in Ontario just to have all your ground covered.
Mike Nikolai |
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| dtjohnst |
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Originally posted by GOT BOOST
Hi silvertable58,
I agree with the people making reccomendations to call a lawyer,
Best option is to make a few calls to a few lawyers. Find out who is well versed with this sort of thing. I am not certain if the rules and laws differ from province to province on this aspect or not. I would also suggest contacting a lawer in Ontario just to have all your ground covered.
Mike Nikolai
Solid advice Mike. Even though this would likely be a Federal matter, a local lawyer would have a better knowledge of how the courts in that province work, and what the best way to proceed is since your friend would have to deal with those courts. Kinda like how everyone is supposed to learn the same thing in grade 10 math but different profs seem to do completely different things.
Also, every province has some form of legal group that regulates lawyers. It's optional so the really fancy lawyers probably aren't in it, but you likely don't wanna pay their fees anyways. You call them, they ask you the nature of the problem, then give you 3 phone numbers of lawyers who provide a free consultation (usually 30 mins or less). You can call one or all 3 if you want, the information is confidential. Just look for a lawyer referral service. Also, anything said during one of those free consultations, despite the fact that the lawyer hasn't been hired yet, is guarded by attorney-client privelidge. It's one of the conditions of being allowed to get free business from the Society.
For the Alberta Law Society see http://www.lawsocietyalberta.com/
For the Law Society of Upper Canada see http://www.lsuc.on.ca/index_en.html |
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