by A new trial date has yet to be scheduled for the man acquitted in the driving death of 10-year-old Talia Forrest in Big Bras d’Or.
A trial date was scheduled to be set today for 31-year-old Colin Hugh Tweedie but the case was adjourned until Monday of next week.
A new trial was ordered for Tweedie after the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal ruled the decision to acquit him was legally flawed.
Tweedie wa s charged after Forrest from Sydney Mines died when she was hit by a vehicle while riding her bicycle along Black Rock Road in July of 2019.
Tweedie was acquitted on charges of impaired driving causing death, dangerous driving causing death and leaving the scene of an accident.
The Appeal Court panel also found trial judge Mona Lynch should’ve turned her mind to whether the Crown had proven Tweedie was willfully blind about whether he hit a person or a deer that night.