55 Md. App. 688 - Strickler v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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12 state decisions

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1. “If as in Brady , the State is held accountable for its failure to ascertain that a person sought for trial is already detained within the correctional system, then, patently, it is accountable when it knows that the individual sought is within that system. Strickler, as State v. Hicks, 285 Md. 310 , 403 A.2d 356 (1979), makes clear, was under "no duty to bring himself to trial." That is the responsibility that is shouldered by the State and, in the words of Hicks , that duty on the part of the State "is not excused merely because the prisoner is incarcerated in another jurisdiction." 285 Md. at 320 , 403 A.2d at 361 . Strickler's case falls within the perimeters staked out by Brady and Gee . The appellant was an accused, and he was in custody. It was, under the holding of Hicks, supra, the State's duty to bring him to trial promptly, and its failure to perform what it was obliged to do is tantamount to the lack of prosecutorial diligence condemned in Brady v. State, supra .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 77 Md. App. 462 - Carter v. State