Posted on 08/13/2013 1:02:09 PM PDT by grundle
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The New Mexico Supreme Court is cautioning trial courts and lawyers that citizens who don’t speak English have the right to serve on juries.
The court issued the admonition in a ruling that upholds an Albuquerque man’s convictions for murder and other crimes in the bludgeoning death of his girlfriend and a subsequent armed robbery and stabbing.
(Excerpt) Read more at lasvegas.cbslocal.com ...
Why would anyone think they have the right to live in a country where they don’t understand what’s going on and then refuse to learn the language of the land?
If someone moved to Mexico, Italy, Russia, China, or France would they be expecting to live in that culture without speaking the language and insisting that they be provided an interpreter? This incident proves without a shadow of doubt that our nation is being destroyed in order to hand it over in a condition acceptable to a new ignorant majority.
Politicians and judges, in fact our entire convoluted courts system, has become the enemy of Americans with functioning brains.
Liberalism really IS a mental disorder!
And severely mentally disturbed persons can sit on the SC bench. (Provided they wear their seatbelts.)
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