Lynda Peart v. City of New York, New York City Police Department, Raymond Kelly, David Dinkins

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• reasoning that “prejudice resulting from unreasonable delay may be presumed as a matter of law”
• noting that defendants were prejudiced by time and money spent on trial preparation and further delays that would have likely resulted in witnesses being unavailable or in their diminished recollection of events at issue
• noting that defendants were prejudiced by time and money spent on trial preparation and further delays that would have likely resulted in witnesses being unavailable or in their diminished recollection of events at issue
• noting that prejudice may be presumed where delay is unreasonable
• noting that prejudice may be presumed where delay is unreasonable
• noting that prejudice may be presumed where delay is unreasonable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).