Legal Opinion
People v. Ryan
New York Supreme Court
Decided January 23, 1973PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtThomas Russell Jones, J.
The petitioners [defendants] were arrested on March 23, 1972 and have been held prisoner in the Brooklyn House of Detention since that date because they lacked $15,000 in cash bail or sufficient credit to buy their freedom. Each prisoner moves to dismiss the felony indictment filed against him on the ground that his constitutional and statutory right to a speedy trial, guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, has been violated by the unwarranted nine-month delay in prosecution. The defendants also assert that their long imprisonment without trial violates the…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Barker v. WingoSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Klopfer v. North CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Dickey v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- People v. ProsserNew York Court of Appeals · 1955
- People v. SolomonNew York Court of Appeals · 1946
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3Cited by3 opinions
- People v. RyanAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1973
- Wallace v. KernDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 1973
- People v. FelicianoCriminal Court of the City of New York · 1973