Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1/8/1980

Commonwealth v. Garcia

Citations

399 N.E.2d 460
379 Mass. 422
1980 Mass. LEXIS 941

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stating that the decision to appoint an interpreter is “uniquely within the province of the trial judge,” who must be given “wide discretion”
finding that a judge in direct contact with a defendant must be given wide discretion to decide adequacy of interpreter
in absence of objection or exception § 33E standard applied to error of constitutional magnitude in jury charge
in absence of objection or exception § 33E standard applied to error of constitutional magnitude in jury charge
\A confession can be voluntary in the legal sense only if the suspect actually understands the import of each Miranda warning\
“A confession can be voluntary in the legal sense only if the suspect actually understands the import of each Miranda warning”

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Judges: Hennessey, Quirico, Braucher, Liacos, Abrams

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