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Juror's poor English warrants new criminal trial.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-JUN-03
Format: Online - approximately 558 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Juror's poor English warrants new criminal trial.(People v. Sanchez)(New York)

Article Excerpt
Because a trial judge failed to adequately assess a juror's claim during deliberations that she did not speak English well enough to follow the proceedings in a drug case, the New York Court of Appeals reversed the conviction and ordered a new trial.

"The [trial] court's inquiry ... was both misdirected and incomplete, falling short of the 'probing and tactful inquiry' that a court must undertake when it appears that a juror may be grossly unqualified," the state high court held. (People...

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