The Sentence That Never Crossed The Jury: The Donetsk Translation Trap
The Sentence That Never Crossed The Jury: The Donetsk Translation TrapFear that one misunderstood phrase can overturn a life: a certified court interpreter rendered a Donetsk idiom as "I did not stop at the church," inserting the word "church" that Marilyn Novak never spoke - and that mistranslation became the prosecution's linchpin. How did a single translated sentence, invisible to the jury in oral testimony but fixed on page 112 of the transcript, drive seven years of legal consequences?In this episode, we tell who was involved, what unfolded that October morning, and how a translation…
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