State v. Selalla

[¶ 57.] The issue is not whether the trial court abused its discretion in appointing an interpreter for the Defendant, but whether the trial court abused its discretion in forcing the Defendant to share his interpreter with the State.

[¶ 58.] I agree with the majority opinion that the trial court abused its discretion by failing to make a record “to support the trial court’s dismissal of the second interpreter.” Supra ¶ 32. The key question is whether confidential communications between Defendant and his attorney had occurred prior to the “forced sharing” of Defendant’s interpreter and whether…