United States v. Phillip Zabawa

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a defendant is a cause for delay when he agrees to postpone trial
• holding that the injury was not inflicted by the defendant when it may have “resulted from the actions (i.e., the headbutt) of [the victim] himself’
• finding that delays caused by a defendant’s injuries from fighting, a hunger strike, and disciplinary violations were the defendant’s fault, thus rebutting the presumption of unreasonableness
• reviewing de novo a district court’s conclusion that a delay in transportation did not count toward the defendant’s Speedy Trial clock
• “The presumption of prejudice only applies, however, when the delay is attributable to the government’s negligence.”
• “When a statute contains an undefined term, we give the term its ordinary meaning. In determining that meaning, dictionaries are a good place to start.” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).