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Effete Snob

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4. I don't think you understand the speedy trial provisions of the Constitution
Tue Apr 4, 2023, 04:19 PM
Apr 2023

The right to a "speedy trial" is the right of the Defendant. In the federal and US court systems there are "speedy trial" rules which are designed to meet various criteria of what has been determined to be "speedy" over the course of 234 years of experience with the Eighth Amendment (which didn't apply to the states until the Fourteenth Amendment).

It is not, however, the right of everyone else to try someone right away regardless of what motions they want to file or other procedural steps that have to occur before a trial in any event.

In other words, if the Trump defense doesn't think it is speedy enough, it is up to them to object, but not up to everyone else to demand it go any faster.

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