The criminal case involving the truck driver who allegedly killed Amanda Kilmister and her 12-year-old son Harrison in a Brimin crash may not have to go to trial.
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Ryan Kenny, 31, had allegedly been using methamphetamine and driving on the wrong side of the road before he crashed his truck into the Kilmisters' family car on the Murray Valley Highway on November 2.
He appeared in Wangaratta Magistrates' Court yesterday via video link from Shepparton with solicitor David Shearer.
The police brief contains 400 pages of evidence against Kenny and a possible trial would have 30 witnesses.
Mr Shearer said "preliminary indications are that we might not" continue to fight the case through a committal process.
"There is a lot of information in the summary that is certainly contested," he said.
"We are ploughing through it and we have a reasonable way to go."
Kenny faces 24 charges including culpable driving, driving with drugs in his system, and driving on the wrong side of the road.
Five of the Kilmister family were in the car on the night, including Amanda's husband Paul who survived but was seriously injured.
After the case was last adjourned, prosecutors asked Kenny to appear in person when it returned to Wangaratta. When he showed up in Shepparton instead yesterday for a video link, they requested a warrant to arrest him for a breach of bail.
But it was denied by magistrate David Faram.
"I have no problem at all with his appearance via video link," he said.
Kenny's case was adjourned until June 13, which his lawyer said he would attend in person.
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