People v. Cortez
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
*758Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Westchester County (Warhit, J.), rendered November 27, 2012, convicting him of manslaughter in the first degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
Although an interpreter must be sworn to interpret properly and accurately, “on appeal the presumption of regularity allows a court to assume that an official or person acting under an oath of office will not do anything contrary to his or her official duty or omit to do anything which his or her official duty requires to be done” (People…
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