United States v. Tanh Huu Lam

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• concluding that defendant’s delay in filing a motion to dismiss weighed against him
• stating that a defendant’s “contentions regarding alleged defects in witness testimony or lost evidence amount at most to speculation and fail to demonstrate any actual prejudice to his defense”
• holding defendant waived his Speedy Trial Act claim because he failed to timely move to dismiss the indictment, despite the defendant’s repeated assertions that he desired a speedy trial
• \Lam's motion to dismiss based upon the Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial is reviewed de novo.\(citing United States v. Beamon, 992 F.2d 1009, 1012(9th Cir. 1993))
• a delay of fourteen and a half months was reasonable in a complex case
• where defendant responsible for the delay, \he bears the burden of demonstrating actual prejudice\

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