United States v. Delman

WEI.NFELD, District Judge.

However much one may deplore the situation here presented1 —nearly fifty adjournments of a preliminary hearing on a complaint before the United States Commissioner extending over a period of more than four years until the indictment was returned — the defense must share with the prosecution the responsibility for these excessive postponements. The government’s attempt to justify the four-year delay as not unreasonable or unnecessary because of the alleged need for continued and extensive investigation in this ordinary conspiracy charge of knowingly possessing stolen…