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flag Alberta judge stays sex charges against deaf man due to lack of interpreter, citing fair trial rights.

flag An Alberta judge has stayed sex charges against Kendal Longclaws, a deaf man, due to the lack of an interpreter to help him understand the legal proceedings. flag Longclaws, who is deaf, illiterate, and communicates using improvised hand signals, is entitled to an interpreter under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. flag The judge ruled that proceedings without an interpreter would violate his right to a fair trial.

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