Commonwealth v. Lujan

*95We are called upon in this interlocutory appeal to decide whether a Superior Court judge erred in allowing the defendant's motion to suppress statements he made during a police interview. The defendant's native and primary language is Moldovan but he also has some knowledge of Russian, a language *96unrelated to Moldovan. To bridge the language barrier between the officers (who spoke English) and the defendant (who did not) the officers enlisted the help of a Russian-speaking student intern (intern). The intern had no knowledge of Moldovan, and was not a certified interpreter in Russian. After…