Whitfield GRAVES, Appellant,
v.
UNITED STATES, Appellee.
District of Columbia Court of Appeals.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued En Banc March 13, 1984.
Decided October 2, 1984.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Holly R. Skolnick, Public Defender Service, Washington, D.C., at the time the briefs were filed, with whom A. Franklin Burgess, Jr., Public Defender Service, Washington, D.C., at the time the briefs were filed, was on briefs, for appellant.
Thomas J. Tourish, Jr., Asst. U.S. Atty., Washington, D.C., with whom Stanley S. Harris, U.S. Atty., Washington, D.C., at the time the brief was filed, and Michael W. Farrell, John R. Fisher, and Amy S. Berman, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on brief, for appellee.
Before PRYOR, Chief Judge, and NEBEKER, MACK, NEWMAN, FERREN, BELSON and ROGERS, Associate Judges, and KERN, Associate Judge, Retired.
District of Columbia Court of Appeals.
BELSON, Associate Judge.
Appellant was convicted by a jury of first-degree (felony) murder, robbery, and first-degree burglary1 in connection with the strangling death of James R. Mathews. The primary question on this appeal is whether appellant was denied his constitutional right to a speedy trial by the lapse of 25 months between his arrest on those charges and the commencement of trial.2 After carefully...
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