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Williams v. State

Citations

  • 610 S.E.2d 32
  • 279 Ga. 106
  • 2005 Ga. LEXIS 135

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  • analyzing whether defendant made showing of impairment to defense, and finding no violation of defendant’s right to speedy trial even after six-year delay
  • analyzing whether defendant made showing of impairment to defense, and finding no violation of defendant's right to speedy trial even after six-year delay
  • “The length of the delay is then considered a second time by factoring it into the prejudice prong of the Barker analysis[.]”
  • even if defendant timely asserted demand for speedy trial, his later withdrawal of the demand and subsequent failure to press for trial should be weighed against him
  • delay of 62 months was “so extraordinarily long as to be considered presumptively prejudicial and to require the consideration of the remaining factors in the [Barker] balancing test”
  • delay of 62 months was “so extraordinarily long as to be considered presumptively prejudicial and to require the consideration of the remaining factors in the [Barker] balancing test” (punctuation omitted)

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Judges: Thompson

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