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Eighth Circuit: No Speedy Trial Rights for Prisoner Placed in Administrative Segregation

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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