State v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “Despite the extraordinary delay in this prosecution, the balancing of interests in these cases cannot overlook the serious consequences of the remedy of a violation of the right to a speedy trial: the “unsatisfactorily severe remedy of dismissal” of the charges when the right has been deprived. State v. Alfred, 337 So.2d 1049, 1057 (La.1976). In declining to find a deprivation of the right to a speedy trial, the Alfred court observed: ‘Overzealous application of this remedy would infringe “the societal interest in trying people accused of crime, rather than granting them immunization because of legal error.... ” Barring extraordinary circumstances, courts should be reluctant indeed to rule that a defendant has been denied a speedy trial.’ Alfred, 337 So.2d at 1057 . (citations omitted)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 746 So. 2d 1 - State v. Cyrex