United States v. Edward Rucker, Jr.

How courts have described this case

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

• delay of more than a year creates a denial of speedy trial claim of “prima facie merit”
• “When the delay approaches a year and a half, as in this case, the Government must provide a justification which convincingly outweighs the prejudice which can normally be assumed to have been caused the defendant.”
• “When the delay approaches a year and a half, . . .' the Government must provide a justification which convincingly outweighs the prejudice [to the defendant] which can normally be assumed.”
• 'When the delay approaches a year and a half, . . . the Government must provide a justification which convincingly outweighs the prejudice (to the defendant) which can normally be assumed.'
• eighteen-month post-indictment delay while serving separate sentence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).