State v. Gee

CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Retired, Specially Assigned Judge.

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(1] The guidelines for the application of the “amorphous” and “slippery” right to a speedy trial guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution are loud and clear. 1 .In several cases beginning with United States v. Marion, 404 U.S. 307, 92 S.Ct. 455, 30 L.Ed.2d 468 (1971) the Supreme Court of the United States has declared that “the Sixth Amendment speedy trial provision has no application until the putative defendant in some way becomes an ‘accused’.... On its face, the protection of the Amendment is activated…