Attorney Americo S. Ventura had a client facing a driving while intoxicated charge in Danbury. Because the man was from Brazil and spoke only Portuguese, the state Judicial Branch was required to appoint an interpreter to let the man know what was happening with his case.
During a plea hearing, Ventura explained that a deal had been worked out for the man to plead no contest to a lesser offense of driving while impaired. The interpreter, however, mistook a few keys word in Portuguese and asked the man if he was in fact guilty of driving while under the influence of alcohol.
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