Isaiah Hedgepeth, Jr. v. United States

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• prejudice will be presumed by long delay but will be an important consideration in “close cases”
• “The passing of such a considerable length of time, no matter who is ‘at fault,’ should act as a spur to the Government to seek prompt trial. If the Government is lax in this regard, it is appropriate to take the earlier period into account.”
• 'The passing of such a considerable length of time, no matter who is 'at fault,' should act as a spur to the government to seek prompt trial. If the Government is lax in this regard, it is appropriate to take the earlier period into account.'
• “The passing of such a considerable length of time, no matter who is ‘at fault,’ should act as a spur to the Government to seek prompt trial. If the Government is lax in this regard, it is appropriate to take the earlier period into account . . . ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).