Question juridique clé
Whether failure to translate key oral steps and the judgment delivery violated the defendant's language-rights and fair-trial rights.
Solution extraite
The right to translation was violated as to the oral announcement of the dispositive because the defendant did not learn the sentence in a language he understood and could not consult counsel immediately afterward.
Motifs extraits
Important procedural acts generally must be translated insofar as needed for a fair defence. Here, the defence did not request translation of the prosecution's oral submissions and effectively waived it, but the untranslated oral judgment, combined with the inability to confer with counsel, did breach the right.