The Halifax Examiner is an advertising-free, subscriber-supported news site. During the three-plus years awaiting trial, however, Mosher faced additional charges for numerous violations of the terms of his release on the sexual assault charge, and one charge of impaired driving. What about Clearwater and the offshore lobster fishery. Halifax Regional Police chief Dan Kinsella proposed on May 11 to cut a $5.5 million in spending to offset the costs that COVID-19 is incurring for the city’s finances. In 2009, he was charged with assaulting a woman during a domestic dispute, but that charge was subsequently withdrawn with the crown saying “there was no realistic chance of conviction,” reported Arsenault.

But the charge of administering a noxious thing was dropped before trial, and Mosher was acquitted on the sexual assault charge in January 2016; “it cannot be said beyond a reasonable doubt that (the complainant) did not give consent,” ruled Judge Flora Buchan. But in September 2013, Mosher was charged with two violations of his conditions, for “drinking outside of his residence and also in the presence of a woman who is not a family member,” for an August 22, 2013 incident in Lunenburg.

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The association wrapped up its annual conference Wednesday in Calgary. "We believe we have necessary laws and regulations in place in relation to firearms," HRP spokesperson Const. That summer, Mosher pleaded guilty to four counts of breaching his conditions and was conditionally released with a year of probation. Halifax Regional Police is on board with the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police's decision not to support a call to ban handguns. On October 2013, Mosher was charged with two more counts of breaching his conditions by drinking outside his residence on July 7, 2013 in Eastern Passage. You can view our commenting policy, was charged with two violations of his conditions, Click here to read the settlement agreement, Click here to go to listen to the podcast, Black man ticketed for jaywalking challenges Halifax police at human rights board of inquiry, Get an annual subscription, and we’ll send you a T-shirt, Open letter from Dalhousie researchers to Halifax councillors.

While the matter was under appeal, the city, the union, and Mosher signed onto the confidential settlement agreement. Halifax Examiner founder and investigative journalist Tim Bousquet has followed the story of Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction for over five years. In December 2012, Mosher was charged with sexual assault and “administering a noxious thing with intent to aggrieve” after an incident on the night of November 2, 2012; a woman who had been dating Mosher for a week said Mosher had intercourse with her without her consent after an evening of drinking at Mosher’s Eastern Passage home. He served 17 years in prison, but steadfastly maintained his innocence. The settlement agreement states that “Mosher suffers from an alcohol substance use disorder (hereinafter the ‘disability’), which disability contributed to Mosher’s conduct forming the basis of the majority of the disciplinary breaches, and which is aggravated by the stress inherent in police work.”. After he was charged with sexual assault and then for repeatedly violating the conditions of his release, Halifax cop Chris Mosher was fired last year by the Halifax police department. But Mosher has successfully appealed his firing, and has received a cash payout from the city and a new job working with either the city’s Parks & Recreation Department or the Transportation & Public Works Department.

John MacLeod. A separate document, a “Disability Accommodation Agreement,” mandates that the city place Mosher in “a permanent fulltime employment position in the Parks & Recreation or Transportation & Public Works business units, comparable to the work previously performed by Mosher in his prior employment as a labourer.” Such a position will entail, in part, driving a vehicle. After the 2012 sexual assault charge, Mosher had been released from custody with the standard conditions applied — including that he abstain from drinking alcohol outside of his home or with a woman. Click here for more information. The Halifax Examiner is producing a new entertainment podcast — The Tideline, with Tara Thorne. Your subscription makes this work possible; please subscribe. CUPE is asking the court to set aside the Police Review Board’s approval of the settlement agreement and to order the Board to reconsider the matter. Before he could actually start working, Mosher was to meet certain conditions, which included passing tests that confirm he has been drug- and alcohol-free for six months and having a substance abuse professional attest that Mosher is in treatment. “The Police Review Board committed a reviewable error by not providing CUPE with notice of the proceeding [that is, the Board’s approval of the settlement agreement, which made Mosher a member of the union] despite CUPE having a direct and interest in the matter,” writes Jason Edwards, CUPE’s lawyer, in the court application. The police union, the Halifax Regional Police Association, appealed that decision and Mosher’s firing to the Nova Scotia Police Review Board. Mosher received the cash and job as part of a confidential settlement agreement between Mosher, the city, and the police union.