People v. DeLuna

This interlocutory appeal on behalf of the People is from an order of the Costilla County District Court suppressing statements made by defendant DeLuna to interrogating officers following his arrest. We affirm the ruling.

The contested ruling was entered after an extensive hearing. Witnesses for the defendant, including a professor of foreign languages who had conversed with the defendant in both English and Spanish, testified that the defendant did not understand or speak English to the extent necessary to knowingly and intelligently waive his rights as delineated in Miranda v. Arizona, 384…