PEOPLE v. WATKINS


12 A.D.3d 165 (2004)

786 N.Y.S.2d 133

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. PAUL WATKINS, Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

November 4, 2004.


Although translation of a victim's testimony was slow and difficult because the interpreter and the victim spoke different dialects, and although the interpreter sometimes had to make multiple attempts to translate a question, the record fails to support defendant's contentions that the interpreter was unqualified or that he failed to interpret properly (see People v Nedal, 198 A.D.2d 42 [1993]; People v Frazier,

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