Legal Opinion
United States v. Dorman Dwayne Walker
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 6, 2001No. 00-3626PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HEANEY, Circuit Judge.
Dorman Dwayne Walker appeals from his conviction in the district court, entered after a jury trial, for escape from custody, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 751(a). The sole question presented on appeal is whether the government’s failure to inform Walker in a notice of federal detainer form of his right to request a speedy trial warrants a dismissal of the underlying charge. The district court 2 answered that question in the negative, and we affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
In March 1998, Walker walked away from a Minneapolis halfway house where he was completing a federal sentence for…
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