Every day, criminal defendants who speak a language other than English appear in federal courts throughout the United States, and have a right to an interpreter to ensure that they are afforded due ...
Patricia Michelsen-King was observing the proceedings in a Chesterfield, Virginia, courtroom a few years ago when a man shouted in Spanish from the back of the courtroom, “I didn’t rape anybody!” ...
Emphasizing that all defendants, regardless of the language they speak, must receive a fair trial, the New Jersey Supreme Court Tuesday sent a sex assault case back to a Hudson County courtroom with ...
In 1991, Dora Ornelas went to the Yakima County Courthouse looking for a part-time job during what she thought was going to be a brief time in Yakima. Since then, Ornelas has become a full-time ...
MANHATTAN (CN) — Language interpreters in the New York state court system asked the Second Circuit on Monday to revive their fight for heftier salaries, arguing that their comparatively low pay is ...