Legal Opinion
United States v. Gates
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 1, 2013No. 10-2163PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
Appalled by his conviction and sentence on drug-trafficking charges, defendant-appellant Frederick Gates seeks to wipe the slate clean. His appeal presents, among other issues, important questions of first impression in this circuit about the operation of the Speedy Trial Act (STA), 18 U.S.C. § 3161.
The defendant’s arguments are forcefully advanced but, when their reverberations subside, they prove to be untenable. Accordingly, we affirm the judgment below.
I. TRAVEL OF THE CASE
On February 27, 2008, a federal grand jury sitting in the District of Maine indicted the…
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