Government of the Virgin Islands v. Juniel Charleswell

How courts have described this case

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• discussing considerations in granting or denying a request for continuance in a criminal case and noting that “a rigid insistence on expedition despite a legitimate reason for delay may deprive an accused of due process of law” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “[T]rial judges must balance the conflicting demands of court administration with the rights of the accused as well as those of co-defendants and others awaiting trial who would be affected by the consequences of a delay.”
• affirming trial court’s exclusion of psychiatric evidence under Rule 12.2(b

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).