Ball v. United States

KELLY, Associate Judge:

Appellant George Ball was convicted by a jury of three counts of threats, D.C.Code 1973, § 22-2307, 1 and four counts of obstructing justice, D.C.Code 1973, § 22-703(a). 2 He was thereafter sentenced to concurrent three to twelve-year sentences for each count. The contentions on appeal are that a seventeen-month delay between his arrest and trial deprived appellant of his Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial and that the double jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibited his threats convictions because those offenses merged with the obstructing justice charges.

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