Legal Opinion
United States v. Brandon Lavantis Hughes
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided November 4, 2016No. 14-14181PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROSENBAUM, Circuit Judge:
Time may wait for no one, but the Speedy Trial Act clock does. Under the Speedy Trial Act of 1974, a federal criminal'trial must commence within seventy days after a defendant is charged or makes an appearance in court, whichever occurs later. 18 U.S.C. § 3161(c)(1). If it does not, the court must dismiss the indictment or information on motion by the defendant. Id. § 3162(a)(2). But significantly, the seventy-day Speedy Trial Act clock does not run continuously. Instead, much like a timeout in a football game momentarily halts the game clock, some pretrial events…
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