O’CONNOR, Justice, dissenting on rehearing. I dissent. We should grant rehearing to examine the underlying premise to the majority’s opinion—that a trial judge can threaten jail time if a defendant insists on his right to a jury trial instead of pleading guilty. The appellant is a recent Russian emigre who speaks only broken English and whose only translator was his son, another Russian <pag…
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