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State v. Simmons

Citations

  • 54 S.W.3d 755
  • 2001 Tenn. LEXIS 651

How courts have described this case

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  • concluding that the remedy for a speedy trial violation is reversal of the conviction and dismissal of the charges
  • holding that speedy trial rights “are implicated only when there is an arrest or a formal accusation.”
  • concluding that a twenty-three- month delay was not inherently unreasonable
  • holding a twenty-three month delay between the return of the indictment and the Defendant’s arrest “not necessarily unreasonable.”
  • noting that for a speedy trial violation, the presumption that delay has prejudiced the accused intensified with time
  • observing that “a lost possibility of obtaining concurrent sentencing is not sufficient prejudice to establish a speedy trial violation”

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Judges: Drowota, III, Anderson, Birch, Holder, Barker

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