United States v. Loud Hawk

In this case we must decide, first, whether the Speedy Trial Clause of the Sixth Amendment1 applies to time during which respondents were neither under indictment nor subjected to any official restraint, and, second, whether certain delays occasioned by interlocutory appeals were properly weighed in assessing respondents’ right to a speedy trial. A divided panel of the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit weighed most of the 90 months from the time of respondents’ arrests and initial indictment in November 1975 until the District Court’s dismissal of the indictment in May 1983 towards…