DANIEL S. PEARSON, Judge.
We reverse the defendant's conviction and remand the cause for a new trial. We hold that the trial judge erred in allowing the jury (which, without dispute, was made up of two persons who understood Spanish and four who did not) to listen to approximately forty minutes of a tape recording in Spanish, which recording purported to recount conversations relevant to the charges in this case between an undercover drug agent and others (sometimes...
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