United States v. Norman Harold Haiges, III

HUG, Circuit Judge:

Norman Harold Haiges, III claims that the Government’s failure to bring him to trial within seventy days of the date of his indictment violated the Speedy Trial Act (the “Act”), 18 U.S.C. §§ 3161-3174. The district court denied Haiges’s pretrial motion to dismiss the indictment, concluding that the Government had complied with the time limitations imposed by the Act. We affirm.

Haiges was arrested on November 6, 1981, shortly after a robbery of the Valley National Bank in Scottsdale, Arizona. He made an initial appearance before a magistrate on the day of his arrest, and was…