Vermont v. Brillon

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “assigned counsel’s failure to move the case forward does not warrant attribution of delay to the state” for purposes of speedy trial claim
• noting that a publicly assigned or privately retained counsel for a criminal defendant is not ordinarily considered a state actor
• stating “a court should consider whether some of the delay is attributable to the defendant”
• to whom delays may be charged, the defendant or the state, for purposes of speedy trial considerations
• “Unlike a prosecutor or the court, assigned counsel ordinarily is not considered a state actor.”
• “Unlike a prosecutor or the court, assigned counsel ordinarily is not considered a state actor.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).