United States Fifth Circuit

Defendant's drug conviction and sentence are affirmed, where: 1) the length of Defendant's pretrial detention was not great enough to violate the Speedy Trial Act or the Sixth Amendment; and 2) there was no evidence that the judge who issued the search warrant at issue was biased against Defendant.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/22/2009
• Published 04/22/2009

Judges

• EDITH BROWN CLEMENT, Circuit Judge:, Before KING, BENAVIDES and CLEMENT, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Carmen Castillo Mitchell (argued), Richard Kent Harris, Asst. U.S. Atty., Houston, TX, for U.S., Eric Joseph Davis (argued) (Court-Appointed), Davis & Associates, PLLC, Houston, TX, for Harris.