Prosecutors were in court this morning in Ottawa to withdraw the charge
OTTAWA — Vice-Admiral Mark Norman is a free man after federal Crown prosecutors announced on Wednesday that they were withdrawing their breach-of-trust case against the military’s former second-in-command.
The stunning move ends one of the most politically charged criminal cases in Canadian history more than two years after it started with Norman’s unexpected — and at the time unexplained —suspension as vice-chief of the defence staff. Mercier said she believes some of Norman’s communications were inappropriate but “inappropriate does not mean criminal.”
But they also launched an internal investigation into who leaked news of the initial decision to review the project. That investigation identified six leaks, after which the matter was turned over to the RCMP.
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