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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. McFadden finds that the trial court properly convicted defendant of interstate interference with an adoptive grandfather's lawful custody of his 16-year-old grandchild. Although the trial court wrongly found that the 26-month delay between defendant's arrest and trial due to the Covid-19 pandemic was not presumptively prejudicial, defendant failed to show that the denial of his motion for discharge and acquittal based on an alleged speedy trial violation was an abuse of discretion. The trial court correctly admitted evidence of defendant's sex acts with the grandchild. However, the trial court incorrectly ordered defendant to register as a sex offender as a condition of his sentence. Although the grandchild was under the age of 18, the victim of defendant's interference offense was the grandfather. Affirmed in part.