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Originally Posted by jwright25
What is the law regarding reading Miranda rights to someone who doesn't understand English?
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They'd probably be fairly irrelevant since officers arresting someone who (for example) spoke Swahili wouldn't be able to interrogate that person anyhow.
But yes, non-English speakers have to be Mirandized as far as I know. I know that with Spanish speakers, often the officer will read the statement in Spanish from a card or give the suspect a card to read.
From what I understand, the issue isn't really all that clear, and there can be further complicating factors, e.g., the officer reads the Spanish card to the suspect but the suspect doesn't understand because the suspect speaks a different dialect of Spanish.