Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Marsh
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided November 29, 1968PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWhittemore, J.
1. The defendant has appealed under G. L. c. 278, §§ 33A-33G, from his conviction on October 27, 1967, on an indictment for rape committed August 22, 1965. The indictment was returned October 1, 1965, in the Superior Court in Norfolk County. The case was called for trial on July 5,1967, but on that day the defendant defaulted. We need not decide the effect, in the circumstances, of the twenty-one months delay (October, 1965, to July, 1967) on the defendant’s right to a speedy trial. See Bishop v. Commonwealth, 352 Mass. 258, 260 (two years “plainly is more than a reasonable time”).…
2Cases cited28 opinions
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- Jencks v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
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3Cited by29 opinions
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