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Cortez-Rivas v. Commonwealth

FILED status graphic: Cortez-Rivas v. Commonwealth. 210011 Cortez-Rivas v. Commonwealth 02/03/2022 In a rape case where one police officer had translated during a detective's crime-scene interrogation of the defendant, but a different officer testified at trial -- translating independently from body-camera footage of the same interview -- there was no violation of the defendant's rights under the Confrontation Clause of the United States Constitution. Assuming, without deciding, that statements translated from one language into another by a tran…
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