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Rarer languages call for special courtroom help from interpreters
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Cornelio Lazarescue listens to the verdict through an interpreter Nov. 16 in Hall County Superior Court during the trial of Geoffrey Mack. - photo by Erin O. Smith
On the courtroom’s back pew, Cornelio Lazarescue sat through a three-day trial last week with a pair of jet-black headphones. Next to him was an interpreter, specially requested to help translate the proceedings into Romanian for Lazarescue. Melva Mendoza in the Hall County courthouse’s interpretive services is tasked with making the language connection.