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: It's (Barely) LegalJustices reject speedy trial challenge
By Glen Ashman
Justices reject speedy trial challenge
National Law Journal
The prosecution cannot be held responsible for the inability or unwillingness of public defenders or assigned counsel to move a defendant's case forward, the U.S. Supreme Court held in a speedy trial challenge in which it took six lawyers and nearly three years to bring the defendant to trial. But delay caused by a "systemic breakdown" in the public defender system could be charged to the state, wrote Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for a 7-2 high court in Vermont v. Brillon.
Full post as published by It's (Barely) Legal on March 17, 2009 (boomark / email).
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