United States v. Rivera

MEMORANDUM ORDER

LEE, District Judge.

THIS MATTER is before the Court on Defendant Oscar Alexander Garcia-Orella-na’s Motion to Exclude Footnote Interpretation of Slang Terms in Transcripts and Defendant Denis Rivera’s Motion to Strike Likely Government Exhibits and Incorporated Memorandum of Law (Docket No. 416). All four defendants are Spanish-speaking members of MS-13 or Mara Sal-vatrucha, a Hispanic youth gang. A federally certified court interpreter in the Spanish language, Maria Horvath, has translated various transcripts from Spanish into English for use at trial. Because many of the…