Spanish-language courtroom show

A reader informs me that RCN Cable in New York City, Channel 17, has a real-life courtroom program from 2 to 2:30 called “Veridito Final,” which is entirely in Spanish. There is no translation from English to Spanish, or from Spanish to English. It is all Spanish. The program is not being broadcast from a Latin American country; there is a U.S. flag in the courtroom. The judge, an attractive female, speaks only Spanish. Now we know that these courtroom program work by approaching persons involved in civil cases and getting them to transfer the case to the tv show and to agree in advance to abide by the judgment of the tv judge. What this means is that enforceable civil judgments are being rendered in the United States in “courts” in which the proceedings are conducted entirely in the Spanish language.

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Mary B. wriites:

I did a little Googling about the above tv show. It’s a Univision production and the judge is a former Miami Dade, Jeb Bush appointee named Cristina Pereyra-Shuminer, although the Univision website refers to her as Cristina Pereyra.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at December 07, 2007 02:38 PM | Send