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Jenkins v. State

Citations

  • 607 So. 2d 1137
  • 1992 WL 282131

How courts have described this case

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  • two and one-half year delay, eleven months of which were chargeable to the defendant, held a violation of the right to a speedy trial
  • no good cause shown when State failed to indict defendant — defendant did not need to be present in state to be indicted by grand jury
  • \[A]ny delay unintentionally caused by the State will not be weighed as heavily against the prosecution as where the delay was intended to hurt the defendant's case.\
  • two and one-half year delay, eleven months of which were chargeable to the defendant, held a violation of the right to a speedy trial
  • within the context of constitutional speedy trial claims, delays “attributable to the defendant tol[l] the running of time.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Hawkins, P.J., and Sullivan and Banks

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