Legal Opinion
United States v. Andre Fuller
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 12, 1996No. 95-3710PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
The only issue presented by this appeal is whether the defendant’s conviction should be set aside and the indictment dismissed because more than seventy days of nonexcludable time elapsed between his first appearance in court and the beginning of his trial. Speedy Trial Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3161. The district judge excluded a period of almost two months during which the defendant was in hospital for a psychiatric evaluation of his fitness to stand trial. If the exclusion was valid, there was no violation of the Act. It concededly was valid if the time limit found elsewhere in…
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