United States v. Jerome Thomas

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• finding that allowing the defendant to be prosecuted in state court without interference by the federal government was “an obvious additional reason for the delay”
• noting that having “to increase inmate transportation back and forth between [two courts carries] consequent additional safety risks and administrative costs, and [it] generally ... throw[s] parallel ... prosecutions into confusion and disarray”
• finding no Sixth Amendment violation where the delay was two-and-one-half years
• “the failure to assert the right will make it difficult for a defendant to prove that he was denied a speedy trial.”
• Speedy Trial Act not implicated until defendant \was either taken into federal custody on federal charges or indicted on those charges\
• delay of over two years between arrest and indictment did not violate defendant’s constitutional right to speedy trial absent showing of specific prejudice

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