{"id":14713,"date":"2020-06-05T00:41:34","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T03:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=14713"},"modified":"2020-06-05T00:41:34","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T03:41:34","slug":"public-prosecution-service-responds-to-public-request-to-drop-charges-against-santina-rao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=14713","title":{"rendered":"Public Prosecution Service responds to public request to drop charges against Santina Rao"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>H<strong>ALIFAX:<\/strong> The Nova Scotia Public Prosecution Service has received numerous email requests from the public to drop the charges against Santina Rao. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Charges of causing bodily harm to a peace officer, resisting\/obstructing a peace officer and causing a disturbance were laid by Halifax Regional Police following a Jan. 15 incident at Walmart in Halifax.<br \/><br \/>This matter is now before the provincial court with the next court appearance set for July. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;31&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;34&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The matter is also the subject of a SIRT investigation which has not yet concluded.<br \/><br \/>A decision to pursue or halt a prosecution cannot be based on requests from the public and the Crown does not argue cases through the media.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under Canadian law, decisions regarding a prosecution must be based on an assessment by the Crown attorney of the available evidence and established legal principles supporting the exercise of prosecutorial discretion.<br \/><br \/>The PPS&#8217;s policy on prosecutorial discretion can be found at, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/novascotia.ca\/pps\/publications\/ca_manual\/ProsecutionPolicies\/DecisionToProsecute.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/novascotia.ca\/pps\/publications\/ca_manual\/ProsecutionPolicies\/DecisionToProsecute.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;6&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;9&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;7&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HALIFAX: The Nova Scotia Public Prosecution Service has received numerous email requests from the public to drop the charges against Santina Rao. Charges of causing bodily harm to a peace officer, resisting\/obstructing a peace officer and causing a disturbance were laid by Halifax Regional Police following a Jan. 15 incident at Walmart in Halifax. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957],"tags":[51,1136],"class_list":["post-14713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-hrp","tag-santina-rao"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}