The Interpreter's Mistake: How One Sound Nearly Ruined A Man
The Interpreter's Mistake: How One Sound Nearly Ruined A ManA single left shoe, upright on a rear service step, and four mistranslated words changed the course of a murder case-sending one man to prison for thirty-two years while another nearly went to trial for the crime. Which four words turned an appearance into an admission, and how did an unqualified interpreter become the hinge on which justice nearly failed?In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the missing evening of October 12, 2009 to the interview five days later that produced the contested phrase, following how…
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