Legal Opinion
United States v. Day
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided June 26, 1997No. 96-CO-1076PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
REID, Associate Judge:
The trial court dismissed the indictment against appellee Norman Day on the ground of unconstitutional delay in the indictment, and because of the government’s destruction of the automobile involved in the vehicular homicide that led to the indictment. We reverse.
FACTUAL SUMMARY
On September 20, 1995, a grand jury indicted appellee Norman Day on a charge of negligent homicide, in violation of D.C.Code § 40-713 (1990). The indictment was handed down approximately eleven months after Mr. Day’s 1971 Oldsmobile 98 veered out of control on the afternoon of October 13,1994, and…
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