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Apr. 28, 2009
Court Translators' Role Is Often Open to Interpretation
Mark McCaffrey asks: What has the precise function of the interpreter become at certain junctures in our legal system?
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By Mark McCaffrey State court interpreters, especially those working in the arraignment and trial courts, often learn far more of the intimate details of troubled marriages, child abuse and drunken and disorderly conduct than they ever ask to be privy to or will ever be called on to interpret for the record. Indeed, they may easily end up knowing more about individual cases than do the public defenders and prosecutors assigned to tho...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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