November 2021
Crown counsel withdrew charges of: sexual assault, assault, unlawful confinement and threatening against Joe Saulnier’s client. The complainant was the client’s ex-girlfriend, who made allegations against him after a big argument and breakup. After she made her statement to police, the client was arrested at work and charged with these serious offences. The…
November 2021
Trevor Martin’s client was acquitted of drug trafficking charges in Youth Justice Court after a successful Charter of Rights and Freedoms challenge led to the exclusion of all evidence. Trevor argued that his client’s rights were violated in the course of a strip search and that the evidence against him should not be…
September 2021
It is unusual for me to post statements or publish details of one of my client’s cases. Typically my clients want privacy, even when they have been acquitted or the charges dropped. This is for good reason, as additional publicity about criminal charges is rarely helpful, even after it is shown that my…
July 2021
On July 5, 2021, Joe Saulnier’s client received a two-year conditional sentence, with house arrest, for charges of assault and sexual assault. Crown had asked for a two-year jail sentence.
At the time of the offence, the client had been experiencing a mental breakdown. Not long before the offence, he had tried to…
February 2021
On February 18, 2021, Trevor Martin’s client, a member of the RCMP, was found not guilty of sexual assault after a trial in Kelowna, BC. After the complainant and the client both testified, the Crown invited the Court to acquit. Cross-examination by Trevor revealed frailties in the complainant’s evidence, while the Crown acknowledged…
November 2020
In November 2020, Elliot Holzman appeared as co-counsel for the respondent in R. v. Langan, 2020 SCC 33. Langan was a Crown appeal, as of right, after the BC Court of Appeal set aside a sexual assault conviction on the basis that the trial judge improperly relied upon a prior consistent statement and erred…
August 2020
In August of 2020, criminal charges were dropped against two of Joe Saulnier’s clients charged with various drinking and driving related charges. Both cases had been set for trial.
One client had been charged in relation to an alleged series of car accidents the police believed was caused by our client driving while…
