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A federal judge has delayed the start of
a trial for more than a dozen people accused in a sex trafficking
ring run by Somali gangs that reached from Minnesota to Tennessee.


      Opening arguments were scheduled to start Monday, but over the
weekend the U.S. attorney's office released to defense attorneys
hundreds of pages of notes and hours of telephone recordings.


      The case involves young girls being forced into prostitution in
Minneapolis; St. Paul; Columbus, Ohio; and Nashville. Most of the
defendants are from the Somali refugee populations in Minnesota and
Tennessee.


      The trial was pushed back one week to give the defense attorneys
time to review the additional evidence.

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A federal judge has delayed the start of
a trial for more than a dozen people accused in a sex trafficking
ring run by Somali gangs that reached from Minnesota to Tennessee.


Somali sex trafficking trial delayed

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