· 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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