OBANDO v. STATE

No. 4D06-3205.

988 So.2d 87 (2008)

Jose T. OBANDO, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied September 3, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Khurrum B. Wahid of Wahid, Vizcaino & Maher, LLP, Miami, for appellant.

Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Heidi L. Bettendorf, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


MAY, J.

The defendant appeals his conviction and sentence for attempted murder and shooting into an occupied structure. He raises four issues. We write to address his argument that the failure to swear in the interpreter and insure the interpreter's qualifications warrants a reversal. We disagree and affirm.

Jury selection began the afternoon of May 9, 2006. The cover page of that volume of transcript notes that a "Spanish Interpreter" was present. The record...

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