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Sixth Amendment Right to a Speedy Trial

Posted By: Mike Petch
Date: Wednesday, 30 January 2019, at 9:42 a.m.

In Response To: Sixth Amendment Right to a Speedy Trial (Marv Porten)

Here in Canada (unless there is exceptional circumstances), charges will be dropped if 30 months elapses after charges are laid and no trial occurs. This is a rather new ruling by our Supreme Court that is a few years old. Our own Charter gives the right of the accused to have a trial in a reasonable time. Until recent years reasonable time was never determined.

Charges will be dropped even in the event it is a murder.

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