United States Ninth Circuit

A thirteen-month delay between indictment and trial did not violate right to a speedy trial where evidence showed that government sought no tactical advantage by the delay; no Batson error in prosecutor's excusing juror of same race as defendant where government advanced race-neutral reasons for doing so.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/15/2002
• Decided 04/25/2002
• Published 04/25/2002

Judges

• GOODWIN, Circuit Judge., Before: GOODWIN and TROTT, Circuit Judges, and EZRA, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• John C. Lambrose, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Las Vegas, Nevada, for the defendant-appellant., Peter Ko and Thomas M. O'Connell, Assistant United States Attorneys, Las Vegas, Nevada, for the plaintiff-appellee.