Legal Opinion
Gilstrap v. Wilder
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided March 17, 1975No. 29613PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Hall, Justice.
Gilstrap, now released from Georgia prison sentences but subject to the Georgia Governor’s warrant for his extradition to Virginia to answer an indictment there for conspiracy to distribute drugs, seeks habeas corpus to avoid extradition on grounds that Virginia delayed an unreasonable length of time after indicting him, before bringing a detainer against him while he was in Georgia custody. His claim is that such delay denied him his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to a speedy trial (see Dickey v. Florida, 398 U. S. 30 (90 SC 1564, 26 LE2d 26)), and thwarted the…
2Cases cited7 opinions
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- Braden v. 30th Judicial Circuit Court of KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Dickey v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Barranger v. BaumSupreme Court of Georgia · 1898
- Graham v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1974
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3Cited by3 opinions
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