United States v. Leonicio Fernando Cruz, Orlando Vincent Hernandez

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• explaining that playing a Spanish recording could allow the jury “to detect changes in voice modulation and note any hesitancies or other characteristics which might give meaning to the tape recording”
• “Initially, the district court and the parties should make an effort to produce an ‘official’ or ‘stipulated’ transcript, one which satisfies all sides”
• “Testimony in this case indicated that Hansen’s statement to Officer Knight was 13 made about forty-five minutes after the attack. This time span does not qualify as ‘immediately’ after the event.”
• “The district court played the tape recording for the jury and had an interpreter signal the jury when it was appropriate to turn the pages of the transcript. This procedure enabled the (continued...

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