Legal Opinion
United States v. Felton
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided January 30, 1987No. Nos. 85-3303, 85-3304PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
WEIS, Circuit Judge.
Defendants contend that their Speedy Trial rights were violated because the district court used an excessively long time to decide their pretrial motions. After a careful review of the record, we conclude that under several different methods of computing excludable time, the limits of the Speedy Trial Act were not exceeded. To forestall possible delays contrary to the spirit of the Act, in future cases we recommend that district courts in this circuit adopt local rules setting time limits for the period between filing pretrial motions and hearings.…
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