People v. James’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. “A hearing-impaired defendant’s right to due process may be implicated in the same way that the absence of an interpreter for a non-English speaking defendant’s right may be implicated: “A defendant who cannot hear is analogous to a defendant who cannot understand English, and a severely hearing-impaired defendant cannot be tried without adopting reasonable measures to accommodate his or her disability.” State v. Schaim, 65 Ohio St.3d 51, 64 , 600 N.E.2d 661, 672 (1992); see Ferrell v. Estelle, 568 F.2d 1128 (5th Cir.), vacated as moot, 573 F.2d 867 (5th Cir.1978). A number of courts have held, and we agree, that hearing-impaired defendants have a constitutional right to hearing assistance and an appropriate accommodation of that right.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Zumberge v. State