People v. Levinson

*Supp. 15Opinion

SHABO, J.

Appellant, a hearing-impaired person, pleaded guilty to a violation of section 22348, subdivision (a) of the Vehicle Code (driving in excess of 55 miles per hour). He requested that the court refer him to traffic school and that the court appoint an oral interpreter on his behalf, at public expense, to enable him to understand the proceedings conducted at the traffic school.1 In ruling upon appellant’s motion the court accepted appellant’s declaration in support thereof as well as appellant’s offer to prove that in an “average” traffic school classroom situation his…