United States v. Jerry Smalls

How courts have described this case

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• concluding delay in bringing case was “at least in part justified” where defendant was undergoing treatment for “the last three of the five-and-a-half-year delay period”
• noting that during three-year period following incompetency determination, prosecutor regularly sent letters to hospital inquiring about defendant’s status, and defendant was tried promptly upon release from hospital
• finding in case involving incompetent defendant that a delay of over five years “is surely long enough to call for an explanation from the government”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).