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>Spending a year in prison awaiting trial, sorry your right to a speedy trial ends well before your actual trial. ...Can you point me in the direction of these

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  "In one murder case, for example, a federal appeals court upheld the finding that a 16-month delay between arrest and trial didn’t violate the speedy-trial right. (Amos v. Thornton, 646 F.3d 199 (5th Cir. 2011).) The court in that case observed that the delay between accusation and trial becomes “presumptively prejudicial” near the one-year mark. It found no compelling reasons for the delay and noted that the defendant promptly asserted his speedy-trial right while the proceedings were pending. But the defendant couldn’t show that the delay compromised his defense, and that inability doomed his claim." http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/the-right-speedy-trial.html http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/the-right-speedy-tria... Some states have a 6 month test for non Murder cases. Generally up to 1 year is considered reasonable in the US with a fairly large number of people waiting longer than that. http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/speedy+trial http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/speedy+trial