This blog is written by the office of Jeffrey Reisman, a Toronto criminal defence lawyer, who has practiced criminal law for over two decades. He spent his first three years on the Crown side as a prosecutor, an experience that shapes how he builds a defence to this day. Since then he has defended thousands of clients across the Provincial and Superior Courts of Ontario, Quebec courts, and U.S. courts in Florida, in matters from impaired driving and over .80 to complex frauds and serious assaults. Rather than covering many areas of law, his practice is criminal defence exclusively, serving Toronto and the GTA including Brampton, Newmarket, Oshawa, Scarborough, Vaughan, North York, and Etobicoke. This blog shares plain-language explanations of the criminal court process in Ontario, since most of the stress of a charge comes from not knowing what happens next. Please treat everything here as general information rather than advice about your own case.