Legal Opinion
Jordan v. Bailey
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided December 2, 2013No. 13 Civ. 7651(KBF)PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION & ORDER
KATHERINE B. FORREST, District Judge:
Petitioner has been in pre-trial incarceration at Rikers Island for over forty-four (44) months, awaiting trial by New York State on a charge of second-degree murder for killing her son. See People v. Jordan, No. 621/10 (N.Y.City.). She has filed this unusual petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241 on the basis that such prolonged pre-trial detention violates her constitutional right to due process. (See EOF No. 1.) Petitioner and respondents agree that she is unlikely to be tried before late 2014.
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