Neither the Sixth Amendment, nor Article III of the Constitution grant defendants a right to have a jury trial when their ...

Michael “M.K.” McKinney, Dr. Michael McKinney, and Josh Mullins were brought before Judge Eddie Coleman Thursday, as the ...

Tardy filing undoes appeal that challenged Erie County Judge Daniel Brabender's finding that prosecution waited too long to ...

A January hearing in Juneau was a snapshot of how pretrial delays have affected Alaska courts: victims, witnesses and ...

All across Maine, there are people charged with crimes who wait years for their cases to be resolved — even though they have ...

A United States district judge has approved Carie Hallford's request to push back her trial date in a federal wire fraud ...

NEW PHILADELPHIA ‒ Testimony has begun in the trial of Christopher Beatty, 36, of New Philadelphia, who is a suspect in the ...

WOODLAND, CA – A jury trial in Yolo County Superior Court has been delayed for three years because, claims the defense, of the failure of the prosecution and police department to provide key witness ...

The trial is scheduled to start with jury selection on March 3 at the ... claimed in January that Bowes' Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial had been violated. Bowes wanted the charges dismissed.

Monday marked the first time Somerset County gathered residents for jury selection since they revamped the process in ...

The Supreme Court ruled that holding an undertrial prisoner for six to seven years without a verdict violates their fundamental right to a speedy trial. This decision followed the case of an ...

Maine law doesn’t specify what constitutes a trial “speedy.” A bill in the Legislature would define this constitutional right by creating ... indicted by a grand jury. Sometimes, that ...