Hi, new here. I've been charged with possession of a dangerous weapon.
I entered through green light intersection, as I entered, crazy driver sped out in front of me from a stopped at light position, in the wrong lane cutting me off, squeeling tires and than didn't even accelurate past 40km, it was a 60km zone so I was doing 65 naturally, I slammed my brakes and nearly hit the car, I kept breaking and than past the lunatic safely and than the driver sped up and tail gated me, in a left to right motion recklessly, I slowed down to let the person pass, they continued back and forth tail gating my car, so I stopped the car, assuming they would pass but instead just stopped and sat behind me. I wasn't sure of how many people were in the car behind me or what was going on, but I have been attacked by several guys the same way, on more than several occasions, it was instinct to open my 3in folding knife and I waited but nothing, no passing me, no coming to my car, I was on my way to see my 2 year old daughter and this person was impeding me on my travels, I got out of my car with my knife in hand and walked over to the car, looked and saw only one person, the female driver, which didn't scare me at all, I told her to get off my tail and went back to my car. She followed me for quite some time after this but not as close. I couldn't believe what had just happened or why it did, was this woman a sociopath? There is no video evidence of the event, but there are witnesses appearently, must have been the cars that came behind hers.
2 days later I was arrested with assault with a weapon and dangerous weapon possession. They gave me a plea deal to plea guilty to the possession of dangerous weapons charge only. I did because I don't want to go to jail for no good reason but can withdraw my plea and want to because I am innocent, but the law is confusing, under Canadian law in Ontario, am I going to be found guilty in a trial? I had no intent to hurt her or anyone. I bought the knife for carving and using it for other things as well as for emergency if I needed to cut my seatbelt or break my car window to get out, after all those attacks it became instinct to have it in my hand. Please help me, I was a delivery driver and had stepped foot inside thousands of peoples homes and never was a threat to any of them and was doing that kind of job for almost 5 years.
If found guilty of the weapons charge, what punishment will I face?
