United States v. Rev. Alberto Mejias, A/K/A Rev. Angel Ortiz

How courts have described this case

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• noting that one sovereign is not bound by the actions of another, and that “successive state and federal prosecutions are constitutionally permissible”
• finding delay reasonable where government delayed federal prosecution to allow completion of state proceedings regarding same conduct
• Court declined to rule on alleged error in denying suppression motion addressed to possession count in view of concurrent sentences imposed on conspiracy and possession counts
• Speedy Trial Act not triggered by state arrest despite later arrest and indict- ment on federal charges
• two-year delay for such purposes permissible
• delay of approximately 16 months

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).