Interpreters shall be sworn truly so to do. In any judicial proceeding, the judge on his own motion or on the motion of a party to the proceeding may order all of the testimony of a deaf individual and the interpretation thereof to be visually electronically recorded for use in verification of the official transcript of the proceedings.
Va. Code Ann. § 8.01-406
Interpreters; recording testimony of deaf witness (Supreme Court Rule 2:604 derived from this section)
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case 38 Va. App. 192 - Saunders v. Commonwealth (2002)
Most recently applied in 38 Va. App. 192 - Saunders v. Commonwealth (April 2002)
Code 1950, § 8-295; 1977, c. 617; 1978, c. 601.
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