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LINTON v. STATE

No. PD-0413-08.

275 S.W.3d 493 (2009)

Audrey R. LINTON, Appellant v. The STATE of Texas.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

January 14, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas L. Wilder, Dallas, TX, for Appellant.

Gail Kikawa McConnell, Assistant Distrct Atty., Conroe, Jeffrey L. Van Horn, State's Atty., Austin, for State.

OPINION

COCHRAN, J., delivered the opinion of the unanimous Court.

Appellant is deaf. She contends that she did not have adequate deaf-translation services at trial. In this case, we find that the three deaf interpreters provided by the trial court were constitutionally sufficient.1 We therefore reverse the court of appeals, which had held, in essence, that the trial court reversibly erred in not providing the "best" interpretive...

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