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As Winston Churchill once said about the state of his war, for Toronto police Const. James Forcillo and the state of his, the end of the beginning came Monday.

Forcillo’s appeals of his conviction for attempted murder and six-year sentence in the shooting death of a teenager on a Toronto streetcar were roundly dismissed by the Ontario Court of Appeal.

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Forcillo and his lawyers have but one option left — to decide whether or not to seek leave (or permission) to appeal that decision to the Supreme Court of Canada.

Otherwise, the 35-year-old officer is out of runway.

For the moment, he remains suspended without pay, a status that started when he breached his bail last fall (by being found at his girlfriend’s apartment, when he was by the conditions of his bail supposed to be living still with his ex-wife) and was detained in a provincial jail.

But the force will now carry on with the internal disciplinary process designed to allow it to fire Forcillo, who faces two internal counts of discreditable conduct and one of unlawful or unnecessary force.