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DICKEY v. FLORIDA

No. 728.

398 U.S. 30 (1970)

DICKEY v. FLORIDA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 25, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John D. Buchanan, Jr., argued the cause and filed a brief for petitioner.

George R. Georgieff, Assistant Attorney General of Florida, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was Earl Faircloth, Attorney General.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BURGER delivered the opinion of the Court.

We granted the writ in this case to consider the petitioner's claim that he had been denied his Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial: he was tried in 1968 on charges of alleged criminal acts committed in 1960.

Prior to the commencement of his jury trial in 1968 for armed robbery petitioner, Robert Dickey, moved to quash the information against him, alleging...

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