Fredericton's Police Chief Says the Force Has Changed Since Two Murder Trials Collapsed

The chief of police in Fredericton says the force has made significant changes after an investigation into an error that forced the Crown to abandon two murder trials last year. Abandoning a trial ends a prosecution before a verdict, which makes it a different kind of outcome from an acquittal: neither case produced a conviction, and no jury decided anything about the accused. The chief's phrase for the response is his own — 'significant changes' describes how the force now works, offered after an error that had already cost two prosecutions.