Gerald D. Norris v. The State of Georgia

With the majority, I agree that the record in this case discloses that Georgia and Louisiana have denied Norris’s right to a speedy trial, and that the district court correctly so decided and properly ordered North Carolina to disregard the detainers filed by those states. But I cannot agree that the district court lacked jurisdiction to order Georgia and Louisiana to give effect to that ruling and that it had jurisdiction only to require North Carolina to disregard, for North Carolina’s purposes, the two detainers. In my view, this result which the majority reaches is supported neither by…