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Non-English speakers can be jurors, New Mexico court says
Fox News ^ | August 13, 2013 | AP

Posted on 08/13/2013 7:40:08 PM PDT by NotYourAverageDhimmi

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To: Jonty30

Hey it worked out for OJ and his jury.


21 posted on 08/13/2013 8:29:55 PM PDT by relictele (A community vigilant in enforcing economic, racial and social equality. It was called Jonestown.)
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To: VeniVidiVici
It's a freaking RIGHT to serve on a jury? How about the right of the accused to have a jury of HIS PEERS??!!

What if the defendant doesn't speak English?

22 posted on 08/13/2013 8:45:28 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

You’re traveling through another dimension — a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That’s a signpost up ahead: your next stop: the Twilight Zone!


23 posted on 08/13/2013 8:49:24 PM PDT by logitech (It is time.)
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To: VeniVidiVici
It's a freaking RIGHT to serve on a jury? How about the right of the accused to have a jury of HIS PEERS??!!

Spanish is a legal, official language in New Mexico and 46% of the population is Hispanic. Odds are pretty good that a Spanish language juror would be a peer.

24 posted on 08/13/2013 8:52:06 PM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi
There's a right to serve on a jury?

If a peremptory challenge prevents me from serving on a jury on which I want to serve, can I sue due to the violation of my right?

25 posted on 08/13/2013 8:52:09 PM PDT by KrisKrinkle (Blessed be those who know the depth and breadth of their ignorance. Cursed be those who don't.)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

so the right of a Spanish-speaker to sit on a jury trumps the right of the defendant to have a jury of his “peers” who can actually follow the proceedings and make a sound judgment on the sum total of the facts???


26 posted on 08/13/2013 8:53:11 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("When there is no penalty for failure, failures proliferate." George F. Will)
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To: SECURE AMERICA
No they do not. If I am a defendant I have the right to a jury of my peers. My peers speak and understand ENGLISH.

Then stay out of New Mexico. Spanish is and has been an official language of that state since New Mexico was admitted as a state in 1912.

27 posted on 08/13/2013 8:54:18 PM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

English should have been declared the official language of the nation ages ago. Now we’re stuck with this garbage.


28 posted on 08/13/2013 9:53:00 PM PDT by CaspersGh0sts
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To: CaspersGh0sts

It is bad enough as a juror to sit in a trial with translation going on, but to then have the english portion translated for fellow jurors is too much. Then when you deliberate you again violate the privacy of the jury room with a translator.
This is the dumbest ruling that could be imagined.


29 posted on 08/13/2013 10:02:50 PM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: Alter Kaker
Spanish is a legal, official language in New Mexico and 46% of the population is Hispanic.

Really? How so? And how different than other states?

30 posted on 08/13/2013 11:02:38 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Play the 'Knockout Game' with someone owning a 9mm and you get what you deserve)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

Well that makes sense.

If the trial is held and everyone speaks Urdu then I can pass judgement based solely on my overwhelming hunger for a 9 piece chicken nugget meal from McDonalds...


31 posted on 08/13/2013 11:42:52 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Alter Kaker

Then stay out of New Mexico. Spanish is and has been an official language of that state since New Mexico was admitted as a state in 1912.
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Not according to the Albuquerque Journal just recently:

http://www.abqjournal.com/208492/news/spanish-not-enshrined-as-official-nm-language.html


32 posted on 08/14/2013 12:53:48 AM PDT by leapfrog0202 ("the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery" Sarah Palin)
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To: Jonty30
What a pesky, racist person you must be to actually expect the jury to understand the language the trial may (or may not) be conducted in. /sarc/

Seriously, this sounds like ample grounds for appeal from any conviction.

33 posted on 08/14/2013 3:57:11 AM PDT by Pecos (Kritarchy: government by the judges)
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To: CodeToad

Thanks. BTW, Alas, Brave New Babylon should be in its finished form in a week or two.


34 posted on 08/14/2013 6:31:18 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: vladimir998
We're past it.


35 posted on 08/14/2013 6:38:04 AM PDT by ex91B10 (We've tried the Soap Box,the Ballot Box and the Jury Box; ONE BOX LEFT!)
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To: Travis McGee

“Alas, Brave New Babylon “

That’ll send a few chills down the reader’s backs.


36 posted on 08/14/2013 7:09:47 AM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: CodeToad

I don’t know how it will be received, but I wanted to put a few ideas on the record under one title.


37 posted on 08/14/2013 12:27:34 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: CodeToad
My new 11,000-word short story "Alas, Brave New Babylon" should be out in a week or two.

Here's a notional "cover" I just built on Paint from an internet image on keywords "collapsed radio tower."

38 posted on 08/15/2013 11:37:11 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

I like it. It gives that feeling of wanting to reach out but the system is broken.


39 posted on 08/15/2013 12:31:41 PM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: NotYourAverageDhimmi

I din no.


40 posted on 08/15/2013 12:39:36 PM PDT by Mashood
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