Perez-Sovias v. State

WELLS, Chief Judge.

Defendant Juan Carlos Perez-Sovias appeals from his convictions for aggravated battery and petit theft, raising a number of arguments regarding his conviction and sentence. Although we conclude that none of these arguments has merit, we nonetheless write to address concerns raised by Perez-Sovias’ argument that the court below erred when it engaged in untranslated conversations in Spanish with a number of prospective jurors, thereby depriving him of a transcript of a portion of the proceedings and ultimately a record to bring to this court.

Perez-Sovias was charged with…