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Eighth Circuit: No Speedy Trial Rights for Prisoner Placed in Administrative Segregation
Loaded on June 30, 2017
by Christopher Zoukis
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2017, page 9
Filed under:
Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement.
Location:
Arkansas.
by Christopher Zoukis
The Eighth Circuit ruled on September 15, 2016, in a per curiam opinion, that the Sixth Amendment’s right to a speedy trial is essentially not applicable to prisoners held in administrative segregation pending criminal charges.
Rashad A. Wearing was incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution in Forrest ...
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