18 U.S.C. § 3173
Section 3173 · Sixth amendment rights
This is § 101 of the Speedy Trial Act of 1974
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 25 court decisions — leading case United States v. Mitchell (1983)
Most recently applied in United States of America v. Daniel E. Musso (July 2020)
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Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
No provision of this chapter shall be interpreted as a bar to any claim of denial of speedy trial as required by amendment VI of the Constitution.