State v. Garcia

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• stating that “the ultimate determination of . . . whether [a] translation was accurate rested with the jury”
• stating that the issue of whether a fact witness’s “translation was accurate” was one that “[d]efense counsel was free to . . . explore . . . on cross-examination”
• [b]ecause it is the trial court’s function to weigh the evidence and [to] determine credibility, we give great deference to its findings’’ (internal quotation marks omitted)
• the defendant was free to cross-examine officer's translation of the defendant's confession on issues of competence, methodology, and potential bias; the ultimate determination of the accuracy of the translation rested with the jury
• direct testimony and circumstantial evidence among ways to authenticate writing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Eleck
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2011-08-09· cited 33×
• State v. Manuel T.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2020-11-19· cited 22×
• People v. Munoz-Casteneda
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2012-07-05· cited 17×
• Duart v. Department of Correction
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2012-01-24· cited 16×
• DiGiovanna v. St. George
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2011-01-05· cited 15×
• State v. Thompson
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2012-06-19· cited 12×
• State v. Artis
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2012-07-10· cited 9×
• Rosa v. Lawrence & Memorial Hospital
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2013-08-27· cited 8×
• State v. Vasquez
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2012-02-28· cited 7×
• Saunders v. Commissioner of Correction
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2012-08-14· cited 5×
• State v. Jackson
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2014-05-20
• State v. Carrion
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2014-09-30
• State v. Lopez
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2017-10-31
• State v. Porfil
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2019-07-30
• State v. Knox
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2020-11-24
• State of West Virginia ex rel. Perri DeChristopher v. Phillip D. Gaujot
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2021-03-16
• Conroy v. Idlibi
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2021-05-04
• State v. Lopez-Betanco
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2022-10-20
• Stenner v. Commissioner of Correction
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2022-11-22