Court of Appeals of New York

Where the prosecution fails to ensure that a witness understood its telephone conversations with out of state defendant by failing to address him in his native language or employ an interpreter, the testimony of the out-of-state witness given at a prior trial is inadmissible.

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• Decided 11/20/2001
• Published 11/20/2001

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