A family emergency left a Lyon County District Court without a qualified interpreter Wednesday morning for a preliminary hearing in the shooting death of 25-year-old Jose Levya Arroyo, also known as Samuel T. Rosado.
The hearing was for Jorge A. Jurado, 22, who has been accused of aiding and abetting in first-degree murder and aiding and abetting in attempted first-degree murder.
Another man, Juan Jose Rosales, 28, was shot and injured as he and Rosado emerged from Rosado’s garage in the 600 block of South Union Street early on the morning of Dec. 20, 2009.
Fowler said a qualified court interpreter to replace the first interpreter could not be located in time for the hearing, which was postponed until 9 a.m. Friday, Feb. 26, in Magistrate Judge Doug Jones’ courtroom.
dick (anonymous) says...
Isn't this the case time and again. Here we go without doubt furnishing this Mex a lawyer, jail care, cost of having to pay for those testifing and the cost of of the interpreter. If he can't speak English then send his rear back to Mexico guilty or not and let them feed and care for him and include his family that came with him. You no speak English you get nothing.
February 18, 2010 at 2:14 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Landa (anonymous) says...
You are so ignorant...where are YOUR ancestors from? AMERICA?? No...shut your face.
February 18, 2010 at 3:52 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
marko (anonymous) says...
would the same hold for the failed Christmas underwear bomber? just send him home?
February 18, 2010 at 4:36 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
eucharistandcannabis (anonymous) says...
I love Mexico. A beautiful country, and some of the most hospitable people on earth.
February 18, 2010 at 4:53 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Steve_Corbin (anonymous) says...
can't we all just get along?
February 18, 2010 at 10:15 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
lcountyvictim (anonymous) says...
...and while we're at it let's sit around the campfire, roast smores, and sing Kumbaya.
February 18, 2010 at 10:22 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
koalemos (anonymous) says...
I say we sing stand by me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-TVg...
February 18, 2010 at 10:24 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
koalemos (anonymous) says...
18,072,788 views on that page alone.
February 18, 2010 at 10:31 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Doug (anonymous) says...
The Christmas underwear bomber just wants a bomb in his underwear. I say we help him out with one that is not a dud.
February 18, 2010 at 11:51 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Bjnemp (anonymous) says...
It seems to me that anyone who lives in our country yet doesn't possess enough allegiance to our flag and culture to learn our language, doesn't deserve to be here, doesn't deserve to remain here, and certainly doesn't qualify for any of the rights reserved for U.S. citizens. By definition, an illegal immigrant is in the country illegally and is therefore a criminal and a foreign national with no entitlements or rights in our nation. Sorry, Dude. Sit in jail until you learn to speak the language or catch the first Greyhound home.
February 19, 2010 at 12:20 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
biscuitboy (anonymous) says...
English...or any other language for that matter. is not learned over night. And that is especially true for adults. How do we know some of these people are not working to learn English but are not sufficiently advanced yet to participate in a court hearing. Hell many of us that have spoken English all of our lives have trouble with lawyer speak. Even the lawyers went to college for years to learn it.
I agree that people that wish to live here should acquire the use of English. But they must be given time unless of course we are going to start requiring English proficiency exams before being allowed to enter the country. If that were to become the case, a number of posters on these boards would have to start packing those bags....and I am talking about a number of posters that presumably have lived here since birth.
I am acquainted with a number of people that are citizens of the United States.....have lived here most of their lives....and arrived legally when they came, that would still be much more able to understand a court proceeding in their mother tongue than in an acquired language. If one of us know-it-alls moved to Mexico and learned the language there. we would feel the same way under the circumstances. Very few people ever acquire a new language that they speak as comfortably as they do their first language.
February 19, 2010 at 6:55 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
missy_mms_2008 (anonymous) says...
Umm sorry guys but he can speak english and just because he is mexican does not mean that he is illegal!!! They are trying to find an interpeter for the witnesses.
February 19, 2010 at 4:05 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
biscuitboy (anonymous) says...
missy_mms_2008
I'm on you side.
February 19, 2010 at 4:09 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
missy_mms_2008 (anonymous) says...
I agree with you too biscuitboy my grandmother (she's a citizen) knows english but prefers to speak spanish because she feels more comfortable with her native language
February 19, 2010 at 4:29 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
biscuitboy (anonymous) says...
Virtually every bilingual person does. That's why it is often refered to as your mother tongue...or native language.
February 19, 2010 at 4:36 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
biscuitboy (anonymous) says...
Try to look at it this way. You think in your native or first language....no matter what language you are speaking. So no matter how proficient you become in a second or third language, anytime you are speaking it you are still thinking in your mother tongue. So then all conversation becomes a matter of largely unconscious translation....hence you feel most comfortable in the first language.
February 19, 2010 at 4:43 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
koalemos (anonymous) says...
I knew I was bilingual when I started having dreams Spanish.
February 19, 2010 at 5:55 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
mzsparks (anonymous) says...
Hey, "dick." Perfect name by the way! Just so that you know, at least one of the defendents in this case is an American citizen who speaks fluent English. It's the witnesses who cannot speak English. I'm sure that the defendant and his American family would appreciate sending all the non English speakers at this point... ;)
February 28, 2010 at 7:35 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )