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Justices reject speedy trial challenge

By Glen Ashman

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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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