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New Brunswick judge stays charges against Indigenous lobster fisherman

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Cody Caplin, a member of the Eel River Bar First Nation, was arrested by federal fisheries officers. He was charged a year later with 10 offences, including trapping lobster out of season. Caplin cited the Peace and Friendship Treaties signed by the Mi'kmaq and the British Crown in the 1700s.

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New Brunswick judge stays charges against Indigenous lobster fisherman

As the case resumed Thursday after a lengthy adjournment, a Crown lawyer told the judge that the federal attorney general had ordered a stay of proceedings because the prosecutor handling the case was ill, leading to excessive delays.

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