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Prosecutor Appeals Ruling That Dismissed Rape Charges
Fox News.com ^ | July 23, 2007

Posted on 07/23/2007 11:16:51 AM PDT by Kaslin

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Prosecutor Appeals Ruling That Dismissed Rape Charges Against Liberian Man Because Interpreter Could Not Be Found

1 posted on 07/23/2007 11:16:54 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Seems to me that in three years, he could have learned English for crying out loud.


2 posted on 07/23/2007 11:19:10 AM PDT by Mercat
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To: Mercat

He knew English. HE KNEW. All along, he knew English. Have they all gone nuts?? This is nuts.


3 posted on 07/23/2007 11:21:59 AM PDT by Shimmer128
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To: Mercat

Well it says he went to high school and college here in the U.S., that’s good enough for me. I’m guessing the very-rare interpreters weren’t there either.


4 posted on 07/23/2007 11:22:39 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten per cent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: Kaslin
They were talking about this on one of the local talk shows. It gets more bizarre.
Apparently this creep went to High School, 2 yrs Community College and he talked to the cops and the DA. Then when it comes time for trial, he claims not to know English.
Care to guess what party this idiot judge is from. Oh, I forgot MD only elects idiots.
5 posted on 07/23/2007 11:24:19 AM PDT by a02001 (Help the third world poor one person at a time- www.kiva.org)
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Savage ruled on July 17 that Mahamu Kanneh, a Liberian who received asylum in the U.S. and attended high school and community college here. . .

Uh, if the guy attended high school and college in the U.S., he should be pretty fluent in English by now.

This judge should be removed from office for letting such a heinous pedophile go free.

6 posted on 07/23/2007 11:24:33 AM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: Mercat

Of course he knew English. He went to school in Maryland and graduated from Highschool. He even went to Community College


7 posted on 07/23/2007 11:26:32 AM PDT by Kaslin (The Surge is working and the li(e)berals know it)
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I heard a part of a news story last week that said after the media got a hold of the ruling several reporters were able to find interpreters in a matter of a few phone calls.


8 posted on 07/23/2007 11:26:35 AM PDT by Gabz (Don't tell my mom I'm a lobbyist, she thinks I'm a piano player in a whorehouse)
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I heard a part of a news story last week that said after the media got a hold of the ruling several reporters were able to find interpreters in a matter of a few phone calls. This is what really gets me. The article makes a point of saying that the reporters were able to contact THREE different interpreters willing and able to help with the case in one day. The court clerk should be fired, and the citizens should vote Savage out of office.
9 posted on 07/23/2007 11:28:36 AM PDT by Nova442 ("Cry Havoc and let slip the Dogs of War.")
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To: MEGoody

She should indeed be removed. I bet Bill O’Reilly will bring it up on his show tonight or tomorrow. Many Sean Hannity will too


10 posted on 07/23/2007 11:28:54 AM PDT by Kaslin (The Surge is working and the li(e)berals know it)
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Also:” Kanneh threatened the young girl “with not being able to leave the apartment unless she engaged in sexual behavior with the defendant,” Hasan wrote in his report.”
So either the little girl knew his strange lingo, or he KNEW English.


11 posted on 07/23/2007 11:30:39 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing")
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To: Nova442

I was still waiting for the rest ofthe article to load for me when I typed my response, I didn’t want to use the number 3 in case I han’t heard correctly.

annoyed me to no end.


12 posted on 07/23/2007 11:30:47 AM PDT by Gabz (Don't tell my mom I'm a lobbyist, she thinks I'm a piano player in a whorehouse)
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I did too, and even the Washington Post had reported that they found three interpreters


13 posted on 07/23/2007 11:33:38 AM PDT by Kaslin (The Surge is working and the li(e)berals know it)
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I was just talking about this case with some colleagues this morning.

I absolutely would appeal and try to make law with this case. The PC practice of providing court interpreters at taxpayer expense is maddening. Some of these interpreters charge as much as $100.00 per hour, which is way more than anyone else sitting in the courtroom makes, particularly the Judge.

Does anyone really think that if we were arrested for a crime in China, or France, or Mexico, they would be bending over backwards to provide English interpreters for us?

This is beside the point that the guy could definitely speak English!!


14 posted on 07/23/2007 11:34:43 AM PDT by GatorGirl (Calling illegals "undocumented workers" is like calling drug dealers "unlicensed pharmacists".)
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To: Kaslin

How in the world did this judge become a lawyer much less a judge? She has no common sense at all?


15 posted on 07/23/2007 11:35:30 AM PDT by WesternPacific
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Naw, he knew English. He graduated in MD from Highschool and went to a Community College


16 posted on 07/23/2007 11:35:48 AM PDT by Kaslin (The Surge is working and the li(e)berals know it)
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It is even worse."But a look at the court docket for July 17, the day the case was dismissed, shows the entry "Interpreter sworn.” Several items below in the docket, Judge Savage “grants defendant’s oral motion to dismiss case based on a speedy trial violation.”

A review by FOX News of the audio from that hearing shows, however, that an interpreter was present throughout the entire court proceeding, during which time Kanneh's lawyer, Theresa Chernosky, argued that her client had not been able to get a good job because of unresolved rape charges.

Chernosky is heard also telling Savage that her client works at a gas station, and has not signed up for school because of the uncertainty about his future. The translator can be heard throughout the entire hearing.

Savage, however, notes to that the events in the case were "unforeseeable, truly difficult in terms of the interpreter issue."

17 posted on 07/23/2007 11:36:33 AM PDT by 3AngelaD (They screwed up their own countries so bad they had to leave, ad now they're here screwing up ours)
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This man was educated here in America....he speaks very good English. Thank you Bill and Hillary Clinton for demanding translators be made available in court rooms, hospitals, class rooms, prison and on and on ad nauseum. Political Correctness marches on...............


18 posted on 07/23/2007 11:36:38 AM PDT by yoe ( NO THIRD TERM FOR THE CLINTON'S!!!)
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Everybody is saying he “knew” English. You all mean he “KNOWS” English, don’t ya?


19 posted on 07/23/2007 11:37:47 AM PDT by jackibutterfly
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To: Nova442

They HAD an interpreter. See post 17, or the story at the link.


20 posted on 07/23/2007 11:37:58 AM PDT by 3AngelaD (They screwed up their own countries so bad they had to leave, ad now they're here screwing up ours)
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