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STATE v. KANNEH

No. 94, September Term, 2007.

944 A.2d 516 (2008)

403 Md. 678

STATE of Maryland v. Mahamu D. KANNEH.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

March 14, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kathryn Grill Graeff, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Douglas F. Gansler, Atty. Gen. of Maryland, Baltimore), on brief, for appellant.

Amy E. Brennan, Asst. Public Defender (Nancy S. Forster, Public Defender, Baltimore), on brief, for appellee.

Argued before BELL, C.J., HARRELL, BATTAGLIA, GREENE, MURPHY, ALAN M. WILNER (Retired, Specially Assigned) and DALE R. CATHELL (Retired, Specially Assigned), JJ.

GREENE, J.

This case arises from a criminal proceeding in which Mahamu Kanneh was charged with sexual abuse of a minor and related offenses. Although Kanneh was arrested on August 18, 2004, his trial was repeatedly postponed for different reasons, mainly the time it took to process the DNA evidence, and the inability to secure a qualified interpreter in Kanneh's native language of Vai.1 Finally, on July 17, 2007, the court dismissed the...

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