Vui Gui Tsen v. State

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• observing that trial court has “broad discretion as a matter of necessity” in determining what interpretive services are required
• affirming trial court’s denial of any interpreter for native-Vietnamese speaking defendant after finding that he had a sufficient grasp of English to understand the trial, even if he did not understand “some of the nuances of the [English] language”
• “the decision whether to order word-for-word interpretation of the trial testimony necessarily hinges on many variables. Chief among these variables are (1
• “[T]rial judges are often untrained or ill-equipped to make language proficiency assessments.” (citing Virginia E. Hench, What Kind of Hearing? Some Thoughts on Due Process for the Non- English-Speaking Criminal Defendant, 24 T. MARSHALL L. REV. 251, 272 (1999))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).