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STATE v. WILSON

No. 1366, September Term, 1975.

35 Md. App. 111 (1977)

371 A.2d 140

STATE OF MARYLAND v. ROBERT MICHAEL WILSON.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided March 8, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert Gallatin Warfield, III, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, and Thomas Hickman, State's Attorney for Carroll County, on the brief, for appellant.

Orrin J. Brown, III, Assigned Public Defender, for appellee.

MOYLAN, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

What is the denial of the right to a speedy trial? As Professor Anthony G. Amsterdam, a recognized champion of defendants' rights, has pointed out,1 it is not one thing but many things. What represents an inordinate delay within the contemplation of the Sixth Amendment, therefore, depends upon precisely what it is that the defendant seeks when he asserts a "speedy trial" claim. It is one...

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