United States v. Harold Richman, United States of America v. George Pappas

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• holding that government’s failure to comply with Rule 16 was “regrettable . . . [but] not so prejudicial as to warrant dismissal.”
• holding that trial delay caused in part by a “devastating snowstorm” was not chargeable to the government in a constitutional speedy trial analysis
• concluding that trial delay caused in part by a “devastating snowstorm” was not chargeable to the government in a constitutional speedy trial analysis
• finding that “ends of justice” permitted excluding time of continuance from speedy trial clock due to “paralyzing blizzard” of 1978
• holding there was “no constitutional [speedy trial] deprivation” where the delay in prosecution arose, in part, from a “devastating snowstorm” that required a continuance
• counsel’s decision to restrict cross-examination of a witness a trial tactic to which defendant was held

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