United States v. Scott A. Fountain

How courts have described this case

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• noting that a defendant who “waits passively while the time runs has less claim to dismissal with prejudice than does a defendant who demands, but does not receive, prompt attention”
• stating, in dicta, that judge may not set mandatory term at more than ten years when sentencing criminal to life imprisonment
• noting dismissal with prejudice penalizes not only the prosecutor but “the rest of society”
• “A defendant who waits passively while the time runs has less claim to dismissal with prejudice than does a defendant who demands, but does not receive, prompt attention.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).