State v. Gonzales-Gutierrez

Defendant appeals several convictions arising out of a murder-for-hire plot that he initiated from the county jail while awaiting trial on separate charges. He assigns error to several of the trial court’s rulings; we write to address only four of those assignments and reject the remainder without discussion. Pursuant to those four assignments, defendant contends that the trial court erred (1) in failing to provide contemporaneous interpretations of two English-language recordings that were played at trial, (2) in allowing a Spanish-speaking police officer to testify about the contents of…