28 Seconds: A True Story of Addiction, Tragedy, and Hope - Hardcover

Bryant, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670066443 ISBN 13: 9780670066445

Verlag: PENGUIN CANADA, 2012

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A night that began with a dinner to celebrate his twelfth wedding anniversary ended in a jail cell for Michael Bryant. He was charged with dangerous driving causing death and criminal negligence causing the death of cyclist Darcy Sheppard. Ironically, he had helped write the legal test for the same charges sixteen years earlier.

Bryant, as Ontario’s attorney general, was the man responsible for administering 500,000 criminal charges every year in that province. He now faced prosecution by the same justice system. The charges were eventually dropped, but nothing could undo what had happened to Sheppardor Bryant.

In 28 Seconds, Bryant chronicles the fateful aftermath of that late-summer evening in August 2009. He looks at the realities of the adversarial court system and a prison system filled with addicts and the mentally ill, speaking publicly, for the first time, of personal challenges and his own battle with some of the very demons shared by Darcy Sheppard.

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Michael Bryant was Ontario’s youngest attorney general. A Harvard trained lawyer, he was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1999 until 2009. He also served as minister of Aboriginal Affairs, minister of Economic Development, and government house leader. He is currently a visiting professor at Osgoode Hall Law School.

Michael Bryant is a former Ontario Cabinet Minister, former Attorney General, and Harvard-educated lawyer. Bryant is currently a Principal at Ishkonigan, a consulting and mediation firm owned and operated by former National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations Phil Fontaine. It assists indigenous communities, governments and the private sector to do business together. He also teaches at the University of Toronto. Bryant lives with his two children in Toronto.

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• Verlag: PENGUIN CANADA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0670066443
• ISBN 13: 9780670066445
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 337
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