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28 Seconds: A True Story of Addiction, Tragedy, and Hope
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28 Seconds: A True Story of Addiction, Tragedy, and Hope Hardcover - 2012

by Bryant, Michael

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Viking, 2012-08-21. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by Author. Signed and personally inscribed by the author on the title page, this copy has a solid tight binding with clean unmarked pages.
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  • Title 28 Seconds: A True Story of Addiction, Tragedy, and Hope
  • Author Bryant, Michael
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 337
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Viking, Canada
  • Date 2012-08-21
  • Bookseller's Inventory # js4703
  • ISBN 9780670066445 / 0670066443
  • Weight 1.24 lbs (0.56 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.22 x 6.4 x 1.15 in (23.42 x 16.26 x 2.92 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Lawyers - Ontario, Politicians - Ontario
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015376187
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Summary

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 Sheppard—or 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.

From the publisher

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.

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About the author

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.