UNITED STATES v. TUNNESSEN

Nos. 1095, 1096, 1112, Dockets 84-1419, 1431, 1458.

763 F.2d 74 (1985)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. James TUNNESSEN, Douglas Fullerton, and Michael Robert Reape, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided May 24, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark B. Gombiner, New York City (Gombiner & Avenia, Peter J. Avenia, New York City, Robert H. Gombiner, of counsel, for defendant-appellant Michael Robert Reape.

Charles P. Gelso, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. (John P. Moses, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., of counsel), for defendant-appellant James Tunnessen.

Frank P. Geraci, Jr., (Asst. U.S. Atty., Rochester, N.Y., Salvatore R. Martoche, U.S. Atty., W.D.N.Y., Buffalo, N.Y., of counsel), for appellee.

Before FEINBERG, Chief Judge, and LUMBARD and NEWMAN, Circuit Judges.


FEINBERG, Chief Judge:

Section 3161(h)(8)(A) of the Speedy Trial Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3161 et seq. (the Act), permits a district court to toll the running of the speedy trial "clock" upon a determination that the "ends of justice" so require. Since such continuances, if too freely granted, would undermine the purposes of the Act, care must be taken to confine them to appropriate circumstances. In these appeals, we must decide...

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