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UNITED STATES v. PIERRO

No. 917, Docket 73-1494.

478 F.2d 386 (1973)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. Joseph A. PIERRO, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided May 9, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. Kevin Sheridan, Stephen M. Behar, Asst. U. S. Attys., Brooklyn, New York (Robert A. Morse, U. S. Atty., for the E.D.N.Y., on the brief), for appellant.

Jerome Lewis, New York City, for appellee.

Before BREITENSTEIN, KAUFMAN and MANSFIELD, Circuit Judges.

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:

We are called upon to interpret a portion of Rule 4 of the Second Circuit Rules Regarding Prompt Disposition of Criminal Cases (Rules), now superseded by the Circuit's Plan for Prompt Disposition of Criminal Cases under Rule 50 (b), F.R.Crim.P., which took effect on April 1, 1973. Rule 4 states:

In all [criminal] cases the government must be ready for trial within six months from the date of arrest, service of summons, detention...

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