After initial confusion about his bail conditions, Const. James Forcillo was granted brief leave from house arrest to make his first appearance at a misconduct hearing at Toronto police headquarters early Tuesday morning.

The police officer convicted of attempted murder in the death of Sammy Yatim said little as he faced one charge of misconduct in connection to Yatim’s July 2013 death.

His hair slicked back, wearing a dark blue suit and a serious expression, Forcillo said “I do” when asked by the tribunal hearing officer if he understood the charge laid against him under the province’s Police Services Act.

A discreditable conduct charge is automatically laid against an Ontario police officer when he or she is convicted of a crime.

“You were found guilty of attempted murder contrary to the Criminal Code of Canada,” reads the notice of hearing filed with the tribunal Tuesday. “In so doing you committed misconduct in that you are guilty of a criminal offence.”

Forcillo, who is suspended with pay, has not yet entered a plea. He left Toronto police headquarters alone through the back exit immediately after his hearing, and declined to comment.

The penalty for being found guilty of police misconduct ranges from a reprimand to dismissal.

Forcillo’s brief hearing, called a first appearance, was scheduled to take place last week but was delayed moments before it was supposed to begin.

First appearances require the officer facing discipline to attend, but Forcillo is under strict bail conditions prohibiting him from leaving the house except under certain circumstances, including work, legal and medical appointments.

It was later determined he could attend the tribunal.

Forcillo’s next hearing on the misconduct charge was put off until July, after the officer’s upcoming sentencing hearing.

In January, Forcillo was found not guilty of second-degree murder for firing the first, fatal volley of three shots at Yatim, who was holding a knife on an empty Dundas streetcar.

But he was convicted of attempted murder for firing another six shots just seconds later, as Yatim lay on his back, dying on the floor of the streetcar. In all, Yatim was shot eight times, then Tasered.

After the conviction, Forcillo’s lawyers launched a constitutional challenge to allow Forcillo to serve time under house arrest instead of jail, arguing the mandatory minimum sentence of five years for attempted murder with a restricted handgun is “grossly disproportionate.”

The Crown responded in submissions filed in court last week, calling the attempted murder of Yatim “one of the most egregious examples of unjustified violence by a police officer in Canada,” meriting more than five years in jail.

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The sentencing hearing begins Monday.