800 years since Magna Carta required a “speedy trial”;
I guess we haven’t kept up yet.
And the DA has immense power to pressure jailed persons to confess to something and plea bargain— otherwise, you’ll serve a sentence anyway.
Justice, USA, 21st century.
Corrupt judges approve extension requests from corrupt prosecutors. They all know this tactic is used to make defendants confess to crimes even when they did not commit them.
Not without a compliant judge he doesn’t.
The judge in this case should never have let this man sit in jail this long without lowering bail to a level that he could manage.
The facts in the case were not in question (at least from the what the article describes). There should not be any reason to delay the trial.
If the DA did not want to bring the case to trial either present a solid reason to delay and lower the bail or dismiss the charge.
The judge is as at fault as the DA. It is the judge’s job to protect the right of the accused from being abused by the DA. Of course, the defense attorney should be fighting for those rights before the judge. But court appointed defense lawyers are not often that good.