United States v. Enrique Melguizo

A defendant convicted of failure to file currency transaction reports contends on appeal that the district court erred in refusing to dismiss with prejudice the complaint against him for the government’s failure to try him within seventy days of his indictment as required by the Speedy Trial Act. Finding that the district court did not abuse its discretion in evaluating the statutory factors that informed its decision to dismiss without prejudice, we affirm the defendant’s subsequent conviction.

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Enrique Melguizo was indicted on August 12, 1986 for failing to file, on two separate occasions,…