United States v. Van Scott Keith

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• holding that where a defendant acquiesces in a continuance, that time is excluded from the speedy trial calculation
• noting that it must be “clear from the record that the court conducted the mandatory balancing contemporaneously with the granting of the continuance”
• discussing what court called “sandbagging” problem, and observing that defendant cannot seek dismissal on basis of continuance to which he “affir matively consented],” and where record supports continuance
• “[T]he district court may not grant an ends of justice continuance nunc pro tunc.”

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