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Zedner v. United States, 547 U.S. 489 (2006), was a United States Supreme Court case involving the right to a speedy trial.Justice Samuel Alito, writing for a unanimous Court, ruled that a defendant cannot prospectively waive the protections of the Speedy Trial Act. [1]
The United States Supreme Court took the case in part to decide if, contrary to the lower Court's opinion, the Sixth Amendment protections on speedy trial applied to state court hearings. The opinion written by Chief Justice Warren , began by reviewing the legal basis for the nolle prosequi with leave motion, calling it an "unusual North ...
United States, 564 U.S. 211 (2011), is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that individuals, just like states, may have standing to raise Tenth Amendment challenges to a federal law. The issue arose in the prosecution of an individual under the federal Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation Act for a local assault that used ...
Opening statements were made Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023, in a Leon County courtroom for the trial against Charlie Adelson, accused of orchestrating one of Tallahassee’s most shocking crimes — the ...
The state law stems from the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees the right to a speedy trial but does not specify a time frame. Will everyone in the Trump case have to be ...
Former President Donald Trump and some other defendants are waiving their right to seek a speedy trial in the Georgia case in which they are accused of participating in an illegal scheme to ...
Sixth Amendment and speedy trial Lloyd Corp. v. Tanner: 407 U.S. 551 (1972) First Amendment; private property; rights Laird v. Tatum: 408 U.S. 1 (1972) Freedom of speech rights cannot be chilled by the mere existence of government surveillance and data gathering Kois v. Wisconsin: 408 U.S. 229 (1972)
A federal appeals court is expected to issue a ruling in that case in the coming days, which could determine whether that trial will start on time. The trial for the classified documents case is ...