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· 4/18/1986

United States v. James Fox

Citations

  • 788 F.2d 905
  • 1986 U.S. App. LEXIS 24542

How courts have described this case

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

  • concluding that an unjustified five-month delay between trial and jury selection was a violation
  • “Trial normally ‘commences’ for purposes of the [Speedy Trial] Act with the voir dire of the jury.”
  • dismissal of the indictment was warranted when the jury was sworn five months after voir dire and no reason for the delay was placed of record
  • Speedy Trial Act was violated where the district court delayed the evidentiary phase of the trial five-and-a- half months but failed to put any justification for doing so on the record

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Mansfield, Meskill, Pierce

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