State v. Roman

The principal issue in this criminal appeal is whether, in the absence of a continuous word-*64for-word translation of English into Spanish, the trial court should have suppressed, as coerced and involuntary, the inculpatory statements elicited during a custodial interrogation of the defendant, Miguel Roman, a Spanish speaking person. A jury found the defendant guilty of the crime of murder in violation of General Statutes § 53a-54a,1 and the trial court sentenced him to a term of imprisonment of sixty years. He appeals from the judgment of conviction to this court pursuant to General Statutes §…