R v Flett

Court of King's Bench of Alberta · AB · Canada · 2026-04-17 · 2026 ABKB 296 · 240291385Q1

AdmittedAlleged deepfakevideooffered by prosecutionchallenge: authenticity

The Crown tendered three Snapchat story videos showing men in a vehicle and a handgun. Defence counsel invoked AI and deepfakes, but the court relied on contemporaneous police viewing, screen recordings, timestamps, matched occupants, and a seized gun to admit the clips and treat manipulation concerns as weight issues.

Rules cited: Canada Evidence Act s.31.1

The court's finding, in its words

The defence deepfake argument was speculative; circumstantial evidence and police screen recordings supported threshold authenticity.

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Decision: canlii.org
Read: 2026-09-07 · primary document read
Found via: Damien Charlotin deepfakes lead CSV (CC0), User brief named-case list
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