TORONTO - Criminal charges against former Ontario attorney general Michael Bryant will be heard before a Toronto court on Nov. 16.
Bryant was not in court today for a routine proceeding in which the case was put over to the new date.
The former provincial cabinet minister is charged with criminal negligence causing death and dangerous driving of a vehicle causing death in fatal accident involving a cyclist on Aug. 30.
Darcy Allan Sheppard died after he was seen hanging onto the side of a car in downtown Toronto -- police said it followed some sort of altercation with the driver of the car.
Bryant has said publicly that he's innocent.
To avoid any suggestions of political interference, the Ontario government has hired top Vancouver criminal lawyer Richard Peck to prosecute the case.
