United States v. Jose Maria Sanchez-Godinez

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an interpreter was not acting purely as a language conduit because he initiated at least some of the questions posed to the defendant in an interview
• Federal agent was agent for defendant in “language conduit” capacity but was not as interrogating officer
• federal agent could not be considered a \language conduit\ when agent \Mirandized\ defendant and asked questions he normally would ask in his capacity as a law-enforcement agent
• “An evidentiary error is harmless if the substantial rights of the defendant were unaffected and the error did not influence or had only a slight influence on the verdict.”
• “An evidentiary error is harmless if the substantial rights of the defendant were unaffected and the error did not influence or had only a slight influence on the verdict.” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)

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