People v. Wiggins’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “[T]he six-year delay between the shooting in 2008 and defendant’s guilty plea in 2014 was ’extraordinary.’ ”) (applying Taranovich factors), leave to appeal granted, 28 N.Y.3d 1152 , 52 N.Y.S.3d 303 , 74 N.E.3d 688 (2017). . Rutherford v. State, 486 P.2d 946, 947 (Alaska 1971). . The court of appeals noted that Wright”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Wright

2. “much of the delay was occasioned by requests for adjournments by defendant and/or his codefendant for motion practice, change of counsel, discovery proceedings, unavailability of co-defendant's counsel and the like”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Wiggins

3. “there is no specific temporal duration after which a defendant automatically becomes entitled to release for denial of a speedy trial”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Wiggins