State v. Roman

Like Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 439, 86 S. Ct. 1602, 16 L. Ed. 2d 694 *72(1966), this case raises “questions which go to the roots of our concepts of American criminal jurisprudence: the restraints society must observe consistent with the Federal Constitution in prosecuting individuals for crime.” More specifically, at issue in this case is whether the custodial interrogation of a defendant, whose primary language is other than English, is admissible when he was questioned by the police without the benefit of a continuous word-for-word translation into his primary language and was…