United States First Circuit

Defendant did little to seek a speedy trial, and suffered no cognizable prejudice from a period of delay attributable to the Commonwealth, thus no Sixth Amendment violation occurred under the factors from Barker v. Wingo, 407 U.S. 514.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/14/2002
• Published 08/14/2002

Judges

• SELYA, Circuit Judge., Before SELYA, LYNCH and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William J. Meade, Assistant Attorney General, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with whom Thomas F. Reilly, Attorney General, was on brief, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Max D. Stern, with whom Stern Shapiro Weissberg & Garin, LLP was on brief, for appellee.