Bratcher v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Conclusory claims about the trauma of incarceration, without proof of such trauma, and the possibility of an impaired defense are not sufficient to show prejudice.”
• “Conclusory claims about ... the possibility of an impaired defense are not sufficient to show prejudice.”
• “[a] long delay, while creating ‘presumptive prejudice’ sufficient to continue the Barker analysis, does not necessarily create real prejudice to a defendant.”
• “Conclusory claims about the trauma of incarceration, without proof of such trauma, and the possibility of an impaired defense are not sufficient to show prejudice.”
• eighteen-month delay in complex murder case was presumptively prejudicial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).