Kelley v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that “the Commonwealth was justified in requesting a continuance for the period in which Trooper Bacote, their primary witness, was called to military duty in the Persian Gulf”
• holding that defendant must “demonstrat[e] actual prejudice, and not its mere possibility” and requiring “at least . . . a factual basis” for defendant’s claim that his defense had been impaired
• noting that the unincarcerated defendant “ma[de] no claim of suffering an abnormal degree of anxiety” while awaiting trial
• noting that “anyone who is subject to a criminal prosecution will commonly suffer anxiety and concern about the outcome”
• noting that “anyone who is subject to a criminal prosecution will commonly suffer anxiety and concern about the outcome”
• noting that \anyone who is subject to criminal prosecution will commonly suffer anxiety and concern about the outcome\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).