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State v. Ervin

Citations

  • 9 So. 3d 303
  • 2008 La.App. 4 Cir. 1078
  • 2009 La. App. LEXIS 468
  • 2009 WL 866770

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  • recognizing the defendant’s degree of proof in each case varies with the government’s degree of culpability for the delay
  • although negligence is weighed less heavily against the State it still falls on “the wrong' side of the divide between acceptable and unacceptable reasons for delaying a criminal prosecution”

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Judges: Bagneris, Belsome, III, McKay

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