No. 21-6460

Truman Jones v. United States

Lower Court: Third Circuit
Docketed: 2021-11-30
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: criminal-procedure dismissal-with-prejudice due-process judicial-discretion prejudice remand sixth-amendment speedy-trial speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation
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Latest Conference: 2022-01-07
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the district court's refusal to accurately compute the extent of a Speedy-Trial-Act violation and to consider the government's district-wide inattention to the Act or the possibility of non-trial prejudice to the defendant required a remand to evaluate whether dismissal-with-prejudice was appropriate

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether the district court’s refusal to accurately compute the extent of a Speedy Trial Act violation and to consider the government’s district wide inattention to the Act or the possibility of non-trial prejudice to the defendant required a remand to evaluate whether dismissal with prejudice was appropriate in the context of an accurate and complete weighing of the statutory and non-statutory factors that have been identified by this Court. 2. Whether a delay of almost four years between the defendant’s arrest and trial violated his Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial. ii

Docket Entries

2022-01-10
Petition DENIED.
2021-12-23
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/7/2022.
2021-12-15
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2021-11-23
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due December 30, 2021)

Attorneys

Truman Jones
Richard CoughlinSuite 350, Petitioner
Richard CoughlinSuite 350, Petitioner
United States
Elizabeth B. PrelogarSolicitor General, Respondent
Elizabeth B. PrelogarSolicitor General, Respondent