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Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Ind. Courts - More on: Court ruling filling up calendars: State justices decide jailed defendants must be tried within 6 months of arrest
Bryan Corbin had a lengthy story yesterday in the Evansville Courier& Press on the impact of the recent Supreme Court ruling that. jailed defendants must be tried within 6 months of arrest. The ILB had a related entry on December 4th, where the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette reported that the ruling "has forced attorneys, judges and court officials to scramble and reschedule trials in pending cases with jailed defendants."
That is not the case in Vanderburgh County, according to Corbin's story, that begins:
An Indiana Supreme Court ruling that requires jailed defendants to be brought to trial within six months or be released is causing courts in some parts of Indiana to reshuffle trials to squeeze them in under the deadline. The ruling has had little impact locally, however, because criminal trials in Vanderburgh County are routinely scheduled long before the six-month cutoff.Local legal professionals could not remember any recent cases in Vanderburgh County where a defendant had to be set free after languishing in jail for too long, awaiting trial.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on December 13, 2005 04:59 PM
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