Reynoldo Martin-Godinez v. State of Florida

In this appeal, the appellant argues the trial court erred in denying his pre-trial motion to suppress statements made to law enforcement at' a time when he had not been provided with an appropriate interpreter. We find no error in the trial court’s denial of the motion to suppress and affirm.

The appellant is a native of Guatemala and primarily speaks a dialect of the Mayan language, Mayan Mam, along with some Spanish. The State filed sexual battery and lewd and lascivious molestation charges against the twenty-two-year-old appellant, claiming he molested his niece who was between eight and…