United States v. Martin R. Kucik

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that there is a “presumption evident in ordinary English usage that when one steals one does so with ill purpose”
• defendant may not rely on period covered by a continuance for a dismissal where he “actively participate[d]” in obtaining the continuance
• “Where a defendant actively participates in a continuance ... he cannot then ‘sand-bag’ the court and the government by counting that time in a speedy trial motion”
• where a defendant actively participates in obtaining a continuance, he may not rely upon that period to support dismissal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).