The underlying action is the criminal prosecution of defendant Delgado for arson in the third degree. After his arrest on January 3, 1984, for allegedly starting a fire in a city-owned vacant building, defendant was interviewed by an attorney from the Legal Aid Society who discovered that Delgado "could only respond to spoken language in seemingly random grunts and noises." Attempts to communicate in writing and by sign language also proved futile upon even the most primitive...
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