Wilson v. Morrissey

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the \speedy trial right was not affected by the filing of a superseding indictment\
• holding that prejudice is presumed when there is a forty-five-month delay in bringing a defendant to trial
• holding that the filing of a superseding indictment did not \restart[ ] the constitutional speedy trial clock\ where the superseding indictment added an ammunition-possession charge to the firearm-possession charge in the original indictment
• holding 14-month delay is sufficient to trigger evaluation of the remaining Barker factors
• noting a counseled defendant’s pro se letter and motion “indicate[d] that [he] was concerned that his trial happen promptly”
• focusing on whether the defendant made “a reasonable assertion of the right so as to put authorities on notice of his Sixth Amendment claim” (quotation simplified)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).