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Burgess v. State

Citations

  • 473 So. 2d 432

How courts have described this case

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

  • a sixteen month delay due to the State's failure to bring accused back from the State penitentiary is chargeable against the State
  • without speedy trial, the State could hold citizens without trial for a potentially indefinite period
  • a sixteen month delay due to the State's failure to bring accused back from the State penitentiary is chargeable against the State
  • sixteen month delay a violation of the right to a speedy trial
  • “Even the indisputably guilty defendant has the constitutional right to a speedy trial.”
  • “Even the indisputably guilty defendant has the constitutional right to a speedy trial.”

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Judges: Sullivan

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