United States v. G. Gordon Liddy

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• heeding recommendation of federal Special Prosecutor to dismiss a state prosecution does not render the state a “tool” of the federal government for Sixth Amendment speedy trial purposes
• “[F]ederal authorities cannot be allowed to circumvent the speedy trial requirements of the Sixth Amendment by manipulating the state criminal processes before the initiation of federal prosecutorial proceedings.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).