Imagine the message being sent by this case.

A 7-year-old girl said she had been raped and repeatedly molested over the course of a year. Police in Montgomery County, acting on information from a relative, soon arrested a Liberian immigrant living in Gaithersburg. They marshaled witnesses and DNA evidence to prepare for trial.

What was missing — for much of the nearly three years that followed — was an interpreter fluent in the suspect’s native language. A judge recently dropped the charges, not because she found that Mahamu Kanneh had been wrongly accused but because repeated delays in the case had, in her view, violated his right to a speedy trial.

Something doesn’t add up here.

First, the judge let him go because she thought the delay in finding a translator violated his right to a speedy trial… however:

Kanneh spent one night in jail and was released on a $10,000 bond with the restriction that he have no contact with minors. He later waived his right to a speedy trial — in Maryland, defendants have a right to be tried within 180 days following an indictment — because the defense wanted time to conduct its own analysis of DNA evidence.

And about his needing a translator…

The state noted that Kanneh attended high school and community college in Montgomery and spoke to detectives in English.

So this case is either an indictment on our educational system, our judicial system… or both.

Prosecutors, who cannot refile the charges against Kanneh, are considering whether to appeal Savage’s ruling. Kanneh was granted asylum in the United States, according to State’s Attorney John McCarthy. A conviction could have led to deportation proceedings.

And isn’t it interesting he knew enough about our system to seek asylum, but a judge thinks he doesn’t know enough to be tried for raping a child.

UPDATE:
Surprise, Surprise. FoxNews called and spoke with Mahamu Kanneh… in English!

1. This schmuck just worked the system but good. The onlyy recourse would be to watch him like a hawk and when he re offends ( and he will) nail his ass to the wall HARD!

   Comment by MrCynic1 — 4:38 pm
   

2. If this happened in Texas, the judge would not even be safe from the vigilantes.

   Comment by Big White Hat — 5:28 pm
   

3. I’m in agreement with both of you. That judge should be disbarred and if I were a parent who lived anywhere near that man I’d be putting up flyers left and right and asking cops to drive by every five minutes.

   Comment by CommonSenseRules — 5:37 pm
   

4. I live in Maryland and have a copy of this pervert’s criminal docket. It’s a mile long.

   He won’t be out for long, trust me.

   Comment by Lynn — 10:27 pm
   

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   Pingback by HicktownPress » Blog Archive » Maryland Court System Releases Mahamu Kanneh, Child Molester — 10:35 pm
   

6. I agree completely with commonsenserules!

   Comment by robertagard — 12:50 pm
   

7. Only a small comfort Lynn considering how long it may take them to catch him. And what he may do to get caught again. And, considering how stupid the court people there appear to be, what’s to stop this from happening again?

   There was a translator IN THE COURTROOM the day he was released TRANSLATING the judge’s decision to let him go. If he can get off then, he can get off again, and that’s terrifying.

   Comment by CommonSenseRules — 3:36 pm
   

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