{"id":3874,"date":"2010-05-25T10:53:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T14:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=3874"},"modified":"2010-05-25T10:53:26","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T14:53:26","slug":"charges-against-michael-bryant-unexpectedly-dropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/05\/25\/charges-against-michael-bryant-unexpectedly-dropped\/","title":{"rendered":"Charges against Michael Bryant unexpectedly dropped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just in from <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2010\/05\/25\/charges-against-former-attorney-general-michael-bryant-dropped\/?utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\"><em>National Post<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>All criminal charges have been withdrawn against former Ontario Attorney General Michael Bryant.<\/p>\n<p>Special prosecutor Richard Peck made the surprise announcement in a Toronto courtroom Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Bryant was charged after an altercation with a cyclist in downtown Toronto last summer; the cyclist, Darcy Allan Sheppard, died in hospital afterwards.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If the speculation went wild after a former backbench federal Conservative MP got off with a (relative) slap on the wrist, it&#8217;ll pale in comparison to the outrage this development is likely to provoke.<\/p>\n<p>Initial discussion of the incident <a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/09\/01\/cyclist-dies-in-horrific-accident-with-former-ontario-attorney-general\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/09\/02\/more-on-the-michael-bryant-incident\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in from National Post: All criminal charges have been withdrawn against former Ontario Attorney General Michael Bryant. Special prosecutor Richard Peck made the surprise announcement in a Toronto courtroom Tuesday morning. Mr. Bryant was charged after an altercation with a cyclist in downtown Toronto last summer; the cyclist, Darcy Allan Sheppard, died in hospital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[111,343,233,207],"class_list":["post-3874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-law","tag-cars","tag-crimeandpunishment","tag-michaelbryant","tag-toronto"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-10u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3875,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874\/revisions\/3875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}