United States Eighth Circuit

When both sides cannot agree upon a stipulated transcript of translated conversations, each side may introduce its own version; when the transcript contains foreign drug code, the party introducing the transcript should ask the translator to identify the foreign word's ordinary English meaning before requesting an opinion as to the word's contextual meaning; while the district court did not follow this procedure here, any error was harmless.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/26/2004
• Published 04/26/2004

Judges

• MELLOY, Circuit Judge., Before RILEY, RICHARD S. ARNOLD, and MELLOY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Counsel who presented argument on behalf of the appellant was JoAnn Trog of St. Louis, Missouri.


• For Appellees:
  
• Counsel who presented argument on behalf of the appellee was James C. Delworth, Assistant U.S. Attorney, of St. Louis, Missouri.   Also appearing on the brief was Raymond W. Gruender.