Legal Opinion

Correa v. Superior Court

California Supreme Court

Decided February 25, 2002No. S093476PublishedCited by 35 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion

GEORGE, C. J.

In the present case, investigating officers testified at defendant’s preliminary hearing regarding extrajudicial statements made by the Spanish-speaking victim of the alleged crimes and by another Spanish-speaking witness. The officers did not understand Spanish, but received the statements of the victim and the witness through contemporaneous translations provided by apparently unbiased bystanders during the officers’ investigation of the crimes. The persons who acted as translators during these interviews also testified at the preliminary hearing regarding their language…

2Cases cited31 opinions

  1. Gerstein v. PughSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
  2. People v. BirksCalifornia Supreme Court · 1998
  3. United States v. Augustin Alvarez, Oscar Hernandez, Mario C. Simon, Rolando Rios, Ramon Raymond, Eduardo Portal, Victoriano Concepcion, A/K/A "Macho"Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1985
  4. People v. LaiwaCalifornia Supreme Court · 1983
  5. United States v. Jaleh NazemianCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1991

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3Cited by35 opinions

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