United States v. Joel P. Dreyer Appeal of Audrey Ellen Goldsmith

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that severe anxiety and depression that contributed to a suicide attempt by the defendant was clearly enough prejudice to the defendant to warrant vacating a sentence and dismissing the indictment
• holding that severe anxiety and depression that contributed to a suicide attempt by the defendant was clearly enough prejudice to the defendant to warrant vacating a sentence and dismissing the indictment
• noting that Rule 48 is “a restatement of the court’s inherent power to dismiss a case simply for want of prosecution”
• finding that a defendant must show that his anxiety extended beyond that which “is inevitable in a criminal case.”
• finding a violation of the speedy trial guarantee where twenty-nine months elapsed between the indictment and the trial
• finding violation of speedy trial guarantee in twenty-nine month delay between indictment and trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).