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COMMONWEALTH v. WALLACE

SJC-11705, SJC-11707.

472 Mass. 56 (2015)

COMMONWEALTH v. NICKOYAN WALLACE (and a companion case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

June 30, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman S. Zalkind ( Ruth O'Meara-Costello with him) for Timi Wallace.

Matthew A. Kamholtz for Nickoyan Wallace.

Sarah Montgomery Lewis, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

J. Anthony Downs,   Samuel Sherry,   Catherine Curley,   Matthew R. Segal, Jessie Rossman, & Chauncey B. Wood, for American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Massachusetts & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: GANTS, C.J., SPINA, CORDY, BOTSFORD, DUFFLY, & LENK, JJ.

In this consolidated interlocutory appeal, we consider whether the Commonwealth's delay in obtaining custody of the defendants Nickoyan Wallace (Nickoyan) and Timi Wallace (Timi),2 brothers, from Federal prison authorities impermissibly affected their right to a speedy trial. In considering this question in...

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