The sincerity of a court-ordered apology letter to a Pittsford boy who was clipped last year by a sport utility vehicle while riding his bicycle is under fire from a Monroe County prosecutor seeking to take the driver to trial.

Prosecutor Ann Chase filed a motion asking a Pittsford town judge to reconsider adjourning the criminal case against Doug Lamb, arguing that his letter to the boy, Julian Moore, was not an apology.

His letter read: “Dear Julian, I’m very sorry that you rode into the side of the car I was driving on September 7th. More importantly, I am glad you didn’t need to be treated by the attending ambulance on the day of the incident. Wishing you a safe and happy holiday season.”

The matter is slated to be discussed Thursday in Pittsford Town Court.

Lamb, 65, was behind the wheel of a borrowed Range Rover and had just finished a round of golf at nearby Oak Hill Country Club when he came upon then 10-year-old Julian Moore riding a bicycle in his neighborhood on Kilbourn Road.

The two collided as Lamb attempted to pass him on the left. Moore wasn’t seriously hurt, suffering scrapes and bruises and a mangled bicycle.

But paramedics and police were summoned, and when officers found no trace of Lamb, they tracked him down and charged him with leaving the scene of an accident causing personal injury, a misdemeanor crime.

In December, Pittsford Town Judge John Bernacki ordered Lamb, of Canandaigua, to pen an apology to Moore as a means of resolving the charge.

In legal terms, the case was “adjourned in contemplation of dismissal,” meaning Lamb’s record would be cleared with no admission of guilt on the condition that he write the apology.

But his act of contrition drew sweeping public scorn in January after the boy’s mother, Jenny Moore, posted a copy of the letter on her Facebook Page and the backstory subsequently made headlines around the country.

By law, the court has six months to reconsider dismissing the charge and to put the case back on the calendar, at the request of the prosecution.

That request came earlier this month.

“The people submit that the letter…is not a letter of apology as required and agreed to by the defendant at the time the adjournment in contemplation of dismissal was issued by the court,” Chase wrote in her motion.

“Restoration of the case would be in furtherance of justice because the defendant failed to fulfill one condition of the adjournment in contemplation of dismissal, which was to write a letter of apology to the victim,” the motion read.

“The people are ready for trial,” the motion concluded.

DANDREATTA@Gannett.com