Sentences with phrase «constitutional speedy trial»

Then Nahmias, a former Northern District of Georgia U.S. Attorney, pointed out the alternative, citing U.S. Supreme Court precedent: «Once a constitutional speedy trial violation is found to exist, however, the remedy will be dismissal of the case.»

In a narrow 4 — 3 decision, the New York Court of Appeals held that the motion court's conditioning the defendant's plea on the withdrawal of his constitutional speedy trial claim did not run afoul of the Court's long - standing precedents in People v. Blakley, 34 N.Y. 2d 311 (1974) and People v. White, 32 N.Y. 2d 393 (1973).

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Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz on Friday waived his constitutional right to a speedy trial, giving his defense team more time to prepare his case.

A judge argued that Hartfield did not take the steps to ask for a new trial, but others have argued that the state violated his constitutional right to a speedy trial.

New York's top court dismissed an indictment against a man who spent six years detained at Rikers Island jail without a trial, saying prosecutors violated his constitutional right to a speedy trial.

«I explained to him his constitutional right to a speedy trial,» assistant public defender Melisa McNeill said.

As the volume of cases in the system grew and the quantity of disclosure ballooned, Crown offices were struggling to ensure that the administrative requirements of organizing such cases kept pace with constitutional demands for speedy trials.

The court said it was hopeful that the hard cap on trial delays would cause Crown prosecutors, court administration, and politicians to make real changes to give effect to the constitutional right to a speedy trial.

He was counsel at the Supreme Court of Canada in R. v. Askov et al, a case that successfully established a constitutional guarantee to a speedy trial, and incidentally resulted in tens of thousands of cases being stopped for unconstitutional delay by the prosecution;

By - the - way, in a criminal trail there's a constitutional right for defendants to have a speedy jury trial.