Court Interpreters and Fair Trials
Globalization has increased the number of individuals in criminal proceedings who are unable to understand the language of the courtroom, and as a result the number of court interpreters has also increased. But unsupervised interpreters can severely under
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Court Interpreters and Fair Trials
John Henry Dingfelder Stone
Court Interpreters and Fair Trials
John Henry Dingfelder Stone Hochschule Rhein-Waal Rhine-Waal University of Applied Science Kleve, Germany
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This book is dedicated to MDS, Juju and the Dude, for changing my life.
Preface
I worked as a trial prosecutor in Victoria, Texas for a few years when I was fresh out of law school. The location of the town meant that a number of our defendants (and witnesses) spoke only Spanish and were reliant on court-appointed interpreters throughout the judicial process. In practice, this meant that we used bilingual defense attorneys, court clerks, or even one of our own legal assistants from the District Attorney’s Office. It never occurred to me at the time that any of these defendants received anything less than a fair proceeding using one of our “interpreters”. After a few more years working as an appellate prosecutor, I got married, moved to Germany and began teaching part-time at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz’s Faculty of Translation Studies, Linguistics and Cultural Studies in Germersheim. As coincidence would have it, this was one of the preeminent training facilities for interpreters in the world and my interactions with the academic staff there fatally undermined every assumption I had made as a prosecut
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