Every day, criminal defendants who speak a language other than English appear in federal courts throughout the United States, and have a right to an interpreter to ensure that they are afforded due ...

Patricia Michelsen-King was observing the proceedings in a Chesterfield, Virginia, courtroom a few years ago when a man shouted in Spanish from the back of the courtroom, “I didn’t rape anybody!” ...

Emphasizing that all defendants, regardless of the language they speak, must receive a fair trial, the New Jersey Supreme Court Tuesday sent a sex assault case back to a Hudson County courtroom with ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A group of Colorado courtroom interpreters who considered walking off the job Monday in protest of their pay rates will not do so after meeting with court ...

In 1991, Dora Ornelas went to the Yakima County Courthouse looking for a part-time job during what she thought was going to be a brief time in Yakima. Since then, Ornelas has become a full-time ...

A San Francisco courtroom interpreter was beaten and hospitalized after being attacked by an in-custody defendant last month, raising concerns about safety measures in another public space monitored ...