[Colonel Kangaroo]

This just makes one sick.

[Sender]

I'm sure the defense lawyer thought this one up. "When they ask you something, act like you don't understand English".

If the Judge were more creative, the essential communications could have been made nonverbally. Just bring in a mouse and drop it in a cage with a python. On the mouse, write "You". On the python, write "Bubba".

[WesternPacific]

Lets see, the judge drops charges against this child rapist because he can not speak English well enough to maneuver our legal system. For one, native born English language users can not maneuver through our legal system without the assistance of a lawyer to interpret the legal mumbo jumbo passed off as legalese. That being said, this rapist had his charges dropped because he could not speak English and then was interviewed, in English, and had no problem.

This judge, due to her obvious stupidity, ranks right up there with the clueless Canoe Reporter.

[WhiteGuy]

Send them all home.

[stm]

The next time I rape someone I am going to start talking in tongues. Guaranteed dropping of the charges.

What a great legal system we have

[kcvl]

witnesses told police he assaulted the girl multiple times. He spent one night in jail and was released on a $10,000 bond with the restriction that he have no contact with minors.

Prosecutors pointed out that Kanneh attended high school and community college in Montgomery and spoke to detectives in English.

A court-appointed psychiatrist recommended that an interpreter be appointed and judges who handled subsequent hearings heeded that advice.

Loretta E. Knight, the court clerk responsible for finding interpreters, said her office searched exhaustively for a speaker of Vai. She said court officials contacted the Liberian Embassy and courts in all but three states.

The Washington Post reported that it identified three Vai interpreters Thursday with help from the National Association of Judiciary Interpreters, including one in Gaithersburg.

http://tinyurl.com/29nvvq

[FMBass]

Hey, I speak “jive” maybe I can help!

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

More incompetence and stupidity from the cesspool known as Montgomery County, Maryland.

[353FMG]

“Mahamu Kanneh, a Liberian native who received asylum in this country and attended high school and community college here..”

Just shows the level of our education. The guy probably was valedictorian.

[Salvation]

If this were a terror case, they would have an interpreter pronto! Go figure.

[pabianice]

Fox News reports he graduated from high school in Massachusetts and he speaks excellent English.

[Fresh Wind]

Well, obviously, they should have sought out the teachers at the high school and community college that he attended. They must have been able to speak his tribal language.

[tioga]

-one of the talking head lawyers of Fox said that there was a translater in the court record AND that the guy went to high school and community college here......HOW did he do all that without speaking English? This is a crock.....the judge must be a liberal loony dem judge.