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To: Guenevere
If you listened to the tape, the judge DOES give the man a right to a speedy trial.

A speedy trial is a right guaranteed to every defendant by the Constitution. A judge cannot give a defendant a right to a speedy trial. Nor can a judge take it away. Only the defendant can terminate that right through voluntary waiver. In this case the judge was trying to get the defendant to waive the right and the attorney, quite properly, refused to do so on behalf of his client.

18 posted on 06/29/2014 6:53:34 AM PDT by KevinB (Barack Obama: Our first black, gay, Kenyan, Muslim president!)
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To: KevinB

Did you listen to the tape?
I listened to the tape.
Where does the judge deny the man his right to a speedy trial???????


19 posted on 06/29/2014 10:37:30 AM PDT by Guenevere
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