This is the real issue.
I understand the "innocent until proven guilty". But, I also remember something like "the right to a speedy trial".
Both the government and the defendant have been doing everything possible to delay this trial, because it's politically inconvenient.
The trial should have commenced within six months.
Obama doesn’t want to oversee this execution on his watch.
I think they're doing the same thing with Tsarnaev, the Boston Islamist bomber. As of the end of last week, he hadn't even been indicted yet and they only have 30 days to indict him or his "right to a speedy trial" has been violated. Prosecutors were going to apply for an extension, but I don't know what happened with that.
The whole Obama Justice Department strategy is to protect Muslim terrorists and keep them out of the public eye and mind by never bringing them to trial or doing so long after the attack.