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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

ROCKVILLE, Md. — The prosecutor in the case of a Liberian native charged with repeatedly raping and molesting a 7-year-old girl said Monday that he is filing an appeal of a controversial judge's ruling that dismissed all charges because an interpreter who spoke the suspect's rare West African dialect could not be found.

Montgomery County State's Attorney John McCarthy called the ruling last Tuesday by Judge Katherine Savage "improper," adding that his office has "requested that an appeal be taken to reverse the court's order."

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, was denied a speedy trial after three years awaiting a court-appointed interpreter who could speak the tribal language of Vai. Linguists estimate that only 100,000 people speak Vai.

Savage called her decision one of the most difficult she's had to make in a long time, especially since she was aware of "the gravity of this case and the community's concern about offenses of this type."

Det. Omar Hasan wrote in the charging document that the victim "attempted to physically stop the behavior from the defendant, but was unsuccessful," the Washington Post reported. 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.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: activistcourts; activistjudge; aliens; donutwatch; dumbjudge; illegalimmigration; immigrantlist; immigration; judicialtyranny; judiciary; rape
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To: BykrBayb
"His 7 year old niece, whom [he] raped repeatedly You are so right! (Woman raped before "honor killing": court)
61 posted on 07/23/2007 1:12:40 PM PDT by yoe ( NO THIRD TERM FOR THE CLINTON'S!!!)
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To: Kaslin
Isn't Judge Katherine Savage the true idenity of MD4BUSH. [ /sarcasm off ]

Oops! That could not be -- MD4Bush was done by some slick deceivers... Katherine Savage is a true Democratic Lame brain...

Predominantly Democratic counties produce abnominations such as Judge Savage... Thank God I am in a part of the country that is conservative (and now Republican)...

62 posted on 07/23/2007 1:13:01 PM PDT by topher (Let us return to old-fashioned morality - morality that has stood the test of time...)
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To: yoe
and Bush could/should do something about it were it not for it’s popularity with the politically correct Teacher’s Unions

So if Bushe were to "do something", what could the teacher's unions do to him?

63 posted on 07/23/2007 1:15:36 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Trails of troubles, roads of battle, paths of victory we shall walk.)
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To: yoe

A detail I didn’t see mentioned in that article is that she had written to police, begging for help, because she knew they were going to kill her.


64 posted on 07/23/2007 1:17:19 PM PDT by BykrBayb (This tagline in memory of FReeper 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub ~ Þ)
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To: PurpleMan
I guess there is someone left in Maryland still with a brain.

I resemble that remark ; )...

the infowarrior

65 posted on 07/23/2007 1:29:57 PM PDT by infowarrior
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To: Nova442
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.

I agree completely. At least they are appealing the ruling (rolls eyes). Montgomery County, Maryland, never ceases to amaze me for their level of stupidity, bureaucracy and liberal bias.
66 posted on 07/23/2007 1:39:52 PM PDT by khnyny (Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. - Ambrose Bierce)
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To: infowarrior

Apolgies.

I shoud have checked your profile.

Ammended remarks: I guess there is another one still left in Maryland still with a brain beside our highly intelligent, firmly committed and all-around-good-guy, Infowarrior.”


67 posted on 07/23/2007 3:30:34 PM PDT by PurpleMan
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To: Shimmer128

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

The Judge is a lawyer, after all. Now you know why the Bard said what he did about lawyers.


68 posted on 07/23/2007 4:29:36 PM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principle)
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To: Red in Blue PA

There’s a strong movement in civil courts to make the loser pay (and often he or she does) but in criminal courts, the loser is usually REALLY a loser and we’ll never collect!!!


69 posted on 07/23/2007 6:13:38 PM PDT by GatorGirl (Calling illegals "undocumented workers" is like calling drug dealers "unlicensed pharmacists".)
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To: GovernmentShrinker
The defendant’s lack of a speedy trial was due first and foremost to

The Washington Post reported, however, that Kanneh had waived his rights to a speedy trial.

70 posted on 07/23/2007 6:58:01 PM PDT by perfect stranger
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To: perfect stranger

I’m sure the idiot judge will claim that the waiver wasn’t valid, because he didn’t have a translator, so he couldn’t have fully understood what he was waiving. The judge and the perp should both be facing trial, and after they’re convicted, they should have to share a cell.


71 posted on 07/23/2007 7:16:42 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: GovernmentShrinker

That would not suprise me.


72 posted on 07/23/2007 7:20:56 PM PDT by perfect stranger
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