In an Ottawa courtroom, on September 16th, Justice Matthew Webber delivered an unequivocal ‘not guilty’ verdict in the criminal court trial of retired Vice-Adm. Haydn Edmundson, accused of exposing himself to, and raping a female sailor on board a Canadian military support ship on exercise while alongside in Pearl Harbor in November 1991. The judge’s decision had been twice-delayed, thereby marking nearly 3½ years from the time allegations against Edmundson became public, to the verdict.
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