Every day, criminal defendants who speak a language other than English appear in federal courts throughout the United States, and have a right to an interpreter to ensure that they are afforded due ...

Patricia Michelsen-King was observing the proceedings in a Chesterfield, Virginia, courtroom a few years ago when a man shouted in Spanish from the back of the courtroom, “I didn’t rape anybody!” ...

Emphasizing that all defendants, regardless of the language they speak, must receive a fair trial, the New Jersey Supreme Court Tuesday sent a sex assault case back to a Hudson County courtroom with ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A contingent of Colorado’s courtroom interpreters is considering walking off the job next week in protest of what they say is low pay from the Colorado ...

Mike Mahler, one of the first federally certified court interpreters in Texas, died last month. He founded his own language services company in 1970. Some of the defendants who Mike Mahler heard ...

In 1991, Dora Ornelas went to the Yakima County Courthouse looking for a part-time job during what she thought was going to be a brief time in Yakima. Since then, Ornelas has become a full-time ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A group of Colorado courtroom interpreters who considered walking off the job Monday in protest of their pay rates will not do so after meeting with court ...

A west Georgia judge who was cleared last year of domestic violence is now facing judicial ethics charges for having an improper sexual relationship with a court interpreter. Chief Superior Court ...