The Crown has stayed a second-degree murder charge for a Toronto man accused of killing his 47-year-old brother earlier this year.

The stay came after the completion of a pathologist report that found the cause of Jason Lewis’s death in March could not be determined, and that the pathologist could not say his death was caused by anything his brother Quentin Lewis did, his lawyer Ann Bergenstein said in an interview.

“It has been very difficult for (Lewis) and he is happy that it is over,” Bergenstein said of how her client felt after the charge was stayed Wednesday at the College Park courthouse.

Lewis, then 42, was deeply traumatized by his brother’s death — he was the one who called 911 when his brother became unresponsive — and he missed his brother’s funeral because he was in custody, Bergenstein said.

Lewis was released on bail in June with the consent of the Crown.

“I thought the Crown treated this case professionally and very fairly,” Bergenstein said.