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Seventeen Years Pending Re-trial Fails to State Speedy Trial Violation under § 1983
Loaded on July 15, 2013
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2013, page 40
Seventeen Years Pending Re-trial Fails to State Speedy Trial Violation under § 1983
Filed under:
Malpractice (Attorneys),
Limitations,
Trials,
Sentencing,
Wrongful Imprisonment.
Location:
Michigan.
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a pretrial detainee did not suffer a violation of his Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial despite being imprisoned for 17 years after a state appellate court ...
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