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Alleged Child Rapist Goes Free Because Court Can't Find Interpreter
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| 7-22-07
| Fox News
Posted on 07/22/2007 1:08:30 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
ROCKVILLE, Md. — Charges against a man accused of repeatedly raping and molesting a 7-year-old girl were dismissed last week because the court could not find an interpreter fluent in the suspect's native West African language.
Mahamu Kanneh, a Liberian native who received asylum in this country and attended high school and community college here, according to The Washington Post, was denied a speedy trial after three years awaiting a court-appointed interpreter who could speak the tribal language of Vai.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: aliens; capitalpunishment; communistgoals; englishonly; gramsci; immigrantlist; judiciary; morethanequalrights; nigeria; pedophile; pedophiles; perjury; rapistandliar
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To: Colonel Kangaroo
Mahamu Kanneh, a Liberian native who received asylum in this country and attended high school and community college here, according to The Washington Post, was denied a speedy trial after three years awaiting a court-appointed interpreter who could speak the tribal language of Vai. We are a living and breathing Constitution based sovereign country.
Give him a break. /sarcasm in total
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posted on
07/22/2007 1:34:30 PM PDT
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: Recovering Hermit
Insanity prevails.Because insanity in power breads insanity.
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posted on
07/22/2007 1:35:52 PM PDT
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: kinoxi
FYI, Rockville is not Southern Maryland.
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posted on
07/22/2007 1:36:15 PM PDT
by
Unassuaged
(I have shocking data relevant to the conversation!)
To: Unassuaged
FYI I live in Maryland. What do you call it?
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posted on
07/22/2007 1:38:04 PM PDT
by
kinoxi
To: Colonel Kangaroo
Went to school here?
Can’t speak english?
How did this happen?
This has got to be on of the biggest full of BS stories I have ever read.
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posted on
07/22/2007 1:40:37 PM PDT
by
Global2010
(Oregon Coast our lil town. Nah nah nah nah It's our town.)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
To: kinoxi
A DC suburb. Southern Md is 10 miles + south of the beltway. I guess if you live in Hagerstown then it is Southern.
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posted on
07/22/2007 1:56:38 PM PDT
by
Unassuaged
(I have shocking data relevant to the conversation!)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
Put his name on the list......
To: Colonel Kangaroo
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posted on
07/22/2007 2:56:34 PM PDT
by
sushiman
To: Colonel Kangaroo
For all intents and purposes, Vai is a dead language. For those few who do speak it, it is sedondary to their native tongue, English.
GlobalSecurity.org ~ Liberia Country Study Some Vai, many of whom are Muslims, are literate in three different languages and scripts: Vai, Arabic, and English. The script has been kept alive largely as a matter of pride. It is not taught routinely to Vai children but is transmitted by knowledgeable elders to youngsters who express a desire to learn it.
I doubt that Mahamu Kanneh is even fluent in Vai.
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posted on
07/22/2007 2:57:09 PM PDT
by
BykrBayb
(This tagline in memory of FReeper 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub ~ Þ)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
This is beyond outrageous. I’ll bet the creep is paying taxes - the IRS wouldn’t hesitate to through him in jail for that without an interpreter.
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posted on
07/22/2007 2:58:09 PM PDT
by
Heartland Mom
(Build the fence, secure our borders, deport illegals - Protect our sovereignty!)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
Same here, frigging unbelievable.
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posted on
07/22/2007 2:59:08 PM PDT
by
OKIEDOC
(Kalifornia, a red state wannabe. I don't take Ex Lax I just read the New York Times.)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
Same here, frigging unbelievable.
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posted on
07/22/2007 2:59:14 PM PDT
by
OKIEDOC
(Kalifornia, a red state wannabe. I don't take Ex Lax I just read the New York Times.)
To: BykrBayb
Some Vai, many of whom are Muslims... I can't imagine what name "Mahamu" is a variant of, but I'm sure it's a name of peace.
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posted on
07/22/2007 3:15:40 PM PDT
by
Sender
(Be subtle! Be subtle! And use your squirrels for every kind of business.)
To: Sender
I wonder if the family has stoned his 7 year old niece yet.
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posted on
07/22/2007 3:17:16 PM PDT
by
BykrBayb
(This tagline in memory of FReeper 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub ~ Þ)
To: Screamname
Basically yes... Just imagine how many languages there are in the entire world - it will stagger you.
As America further adopts the destructive ideology of diversity and multiculturalism - they will find that the courts in big cities in the USA will need to have over a hundred translators on hire just to meet the demand.
An American Expat in Southeast Asia
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posted on
07/22/2007 3:20:59 PM PDT
by
expatguy
(Support - "An American Expat in Southeast Asia")
To: Colonel Kangaroo
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".
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posted on
07/22/2007 3:24:38 PM PDT
by
Sender
(Be subtle! Be subtle! And use your squirrels for every kind of business.)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
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.
To: Colonel Kangaroo
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posted on
07/22/2007 3:30:20 PM PDT
by
WhiteGuy
(GOP Congress - 16,000 earmarks costing US $50 billion in 2006 - PAUL2008)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
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
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posted on
07/22/2007 3:36:50 PM PDT
by
stm
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