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· 7/16/1992

Terry Cox v. A.L. Lockhart, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction

Citations

  • 970 F.2d 448
  • 1992 U.S. App. LEXIS 16085
  • 1992 WL 163519

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 knowingly and voluntarily entered guilty plea waives a defendant's right to a speedy trial
  • agreeing that the defendant’s guilty plea waived his Sixth Amendment speedy trial claim
  • “A voluntary plea of guilty constitutes a waiver of all non-jurisdictional defects[,] . . . [and] the right to a speedy trial is non-jurisdictional in nature.”
  • speedy-trial claim is nonjurisdictional and therefore waived by guilty plea

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: McMillian, Gibson, Hunter

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