Legal Question in Criminal Law in Maryland
as a us citizen;i am guaranteed the right to a speedy trial.how speedy can a speedy trial be? for example: would i be able to recieve my trial the next day?
3 Answers from Attorneys
In Maryland, a speedy trial is within 180 days of your first appearance in Court. In Federal Court it is within 1 year of your arrest.
"Speedy" is a relative term depending on the seriousness of the charge and the complexity of the evidence. Perhaps a person might go to trial the next day for a non-jailable citation in a jurisdiction that is not very busy. A judge ultimately decides whether a trial is speedy enough for the law, considering the court's docket, whether trial would be unfair to a party who was not prepared, and any other factor that might arise in a specific case. I am aware that a year and two weeks may be too long for a dui and three years may be too long for a murder in Baltimore City.
The next day after what?
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