The Crown will need two more weeks to determine whether the criminal case against Gerry Lougheed Jr. should go to trial.
That was the determination at the Sudbury Courthouse on Thursday morning.
The court has set a confirmation hearing for May 10, and if the matter does proceed to trial, three weeks have been set aside in July for the deliberations.
Lougheed was not in court Thursday, but his lawyer, Michael Lacy of the firm Greenspan Partners LLP, is scheduled to return April 14 when it should be determined whether or not the matter will go to trial.
Lougheed, a prominent fundraiser for the Liberal Party of Ontario, is charged with one count of Counselling an Offence Not Committed [Section 464 (a) of the Criminal Code] and one count of Unlawfully Influencing or Negotiating Appointments [Section 125 (b) of the Criminal Code].
The Ontario Provincial Police's Anti-Rackets branch laid the charges following an investigation that started in January 2015.
That was when former Liberal candidate Andrew Olivier released recordings of a conversation with Lougheed in which Olivier's future as a candidate was discussed.
The recordings led to the charges against Lougheed.
