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Supreme Court· 5/25/1970

Dickey v. Florida

Citations

  • 398 U.S. 30
  • 90 S. Ct. 1564
  • 26 L. Ed. 2d 26
  • 1970 U.S. LEXIS 38

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that a federal detainee against whom only a Florida arrest warrant and detainer were filed in mid-1960 had a constitutional right upon demand to have Florida make a diligent good-faith effort to try him
  • finding that incarceration does not make a defendant unavailable “since there have long been means by which one jurisdiction ... can obtain custody of a prisoner held by another” for purposes of a criminal trial
  • finding a Sixth Amendment speedy trial violation notwithstanding the State’s argument that petitioner was in federal and state custody during the entire delay
  • noting that “[a] defendant may be disentitled to the speedy-trial safeguard in the case of a delay for which he has, or shares, responsibility” such as a “delay occasioned by his incompetence to stand trial.”
  • noting that a “defendant may be disentitled to the speedy-trial safeguard in the case of a delay for which he has, or shares, responsibility,” citing the example of “delay occasioned by his incompetence to stand trial”
  • finding “loss of police records” along with the death of two potential witnesses and unavailability of other witnesses constituted actual prejudice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Burger, Harlan, Brennan, Marshall

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611 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

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