How would they understand the trial, if it’s conducted in English?
“The Supreme Court says it agrees with that argument but also says Samora’s defense needed to object during the trial but didn’t. “
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Just saying.
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It's a freaking RIGHT to serve on a jury? How about the right of the accused to have a jury of HIS PEERS??!!
...and if , say, the jurors are non-English speaking Muslims who have only been exposed to and have practiced sharia law their entire lives.....
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The takeover of New Mexico by illegal aliens was a great story (Matt's best in my humble opinion) in Domestic Enemies. In the book we read of things like juries being made of Mexican nationals, and police being illegal aliens, too! It kept me up a few nights, that's for sure! Well, a few years later we are seeing this takeover in real life.
It isn't a novel anymore.
Gee, are we at the point where armed rebellion is necessary?
Hmm, if you have non-English speakers and English speakers on the same jury, then they don’t hear the same things. An interpreter might say something in Spanish that an English speaker might interpret a different way.
I was on a jury here in CA, and because the defendant and some witnesses spoke only Spanish, NONE of the jurors could speak Spanish, because we’d hear it directly and from the interpreter, while the English-only jurors would hear only the interpreter.
It’s bizarro world, I tell you, when someone who speaks NO ENGLISH would be allowed to serve as a juror in an ENGLISH ONLY trial.
The New Mexico Supreme Court is cautioning the state’s trial courts that citizens who don’t speak English have the right to serve on juries.
No they do not. If I am a defendant I have the right to a jury of my peers. My peers speak and understand ENGLISH.
Why not?
What difference does it make?
Leni
All of the jurors could speak English, but I imagine they could do the same for them during the trial.
But what about during jury deliberations? Would they allow an interpreter in there to help the jurors communicate? Has anyone other than a juror ever been allowed in the jury room during deliberations?
This seems fishy to me.
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If a peremptory challenge prevents me from serving on a jury on which I want to serve, can I sue due to the violation of my right?
so the right of a Spanish-speaker to sit on a jury trumps the right of the defendant to have a jury of his “peers” who can actually follow the proceedings and make a sound judgment on the sum total of the facts???
English should have been declared the official language of the nation ages ago. Now we’re stuck with this garbage.
Well that makes sense.
If the trial is held and everyone speaks Urdu then I can pass judgement based solely on my overwhelming hunger for a 9 piece chicken nugget meal from McDonalds...
I din no.
Since when is jury duty “a right”?