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Perry v. State

Citations

  • 637 So. 2d 871
  • 1994 WL 235403

How courts have described this case

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

  • stating that \a demand for dismissal for violation of the right to speedy trial is not the equivalent of a demand for speedy trial . . .\
  • reversing and remanding judgment for inclusion of lesser-included offense reasoning that evidence supporting the lesser-included instruction need not be espoused by the defendant
  • weighing this factor against the State after an eight-month delay resulted from the State’s failure to obtain a substance report from the Mississippi Forensics Laboratory
  • reversing and remanding judgment for inclusion of lesser-included offense reasoning that evidence supporting the lesser-included instruction need not be espoused by the defendant
  • holding “an eight-month delay is presumptively prejudicial”
  • “[A] demand for dismissal for violation of the right to speedy trial is not the equivalent of a demand for speedy trial. Such a motion seeks discharge, not trial.”

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186 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

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