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The accused was charged in June 2015 and he pleaded not guilty. Although he admitted to killing a caribou, he insisted that he mistakenly believed the temporary prohibition on caribou hunting had been lifted.

The man, 22 years old at the time he was charged under the Nunavut Wildlife Act, was out on a Ranger patrol when he spotted the caribou. His patrol sergeant made a radio call to the Igloolik Hunters and Trappers Organization (HTO) and said a board member, who was an elder, informed him the caribou hunting ban was no longer in effect.

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Chief Justice Neil Sharkey concluded that the man harvested the caribou based on erroneous information and therefore had a valid defence known as SA国际影视传媒渙fficially induced error.SA国际影视传媒� Sharkey consequently decided that a stay of proceedings is warranted, according to a decision circulated by the Nunavut Court of Justice on Thursday.

SA国际影视传媒�(This) case falls within such an exceptional combination of circumstances. (The accused) received information that the harvesting ban had been lifted when he was physically and geographically isolated from any other authority or possible source of information. His immediate source of information SA国际影视传媒� his Ranger Sergeant with control of communications to the outside world SA国际影视传媒� was someone he was sworn to trust and obey. And the original source of the information was both an elder and a HTO board member,SA国际影视传媒� Sharkey stated.