Court translation is critical. The ability to understand whats going on in court with your case is a fundamental constitutional requirement of the due process clause. The California Federation of interpreters says Santa Clara County need at least seven certified staff interpreters daily at the hall of justice to deal with case load. Today it almost says there are only five forcing her to rush from courtroom to courtroom. It doesnt effectively let me be able to communicate whatever message needs to be conveyed during the proceedings as effectively as i would if i had the time to be able to do it. What you have to be careful of is theres not a twotier system of justice, people that speak english and people that do not speak english. I just smoke with the court on friday. They said they were going to find someone to respond to the allegations today but have not returned numerous messages. Legal analyst steven clark tells me in many cases monolingual defendants will win their cases on appe