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18 U.S.C. § 3164
Persons detained or designated as being of high risk
(a) The trial or other disposition of cases involving—(1) a detained person who is being held in detention solely because he is awaiting trial, and(2) a released person who is awaiting trial and has been designated by the attorney for the Government as being of high risk,shall be accorded priority.(b) The trial of any person described in subsection (a)(1) or (a)(2) of this section shall commence not later than ninety days following the beginning of such continuous detention or designation of high risk by the attorney for the Government. The periods of delay enumerated in section 3161(h) are excluded in computing the time limitation specified in this section.(c) Failure to commence trial of a detainee as specified in subsection (b), through no fault of the accused or his counsel, or failure to commence trial of a designated releasee as specified in subsection (b), through no fault of the attorney for the Government, shall result in the automatic review by the court of the conditions of release. No detainee, as defined in subsection (a), shall be held in custody pending trial after the expiration of such ninety-day period required for the commencement of his trial. A designated releasee, as defined in subsection (a), who is found by the court to have intentionally delayed the trial of his case shall be subject to an order of the court modifying his nonfinancial conditions of release under this title to insure that he shall appear at trial as required.(Added Pub. L. 93–619, title I, § 101, Jan. 3, 1975, 88 Stat. 2081; amended Pub. L. 96–43, § 7, Aug. 2, 1979, 93 Stat. 329.)Editorial NotesAmendments1979—Pub. L. 96–43, § 7(1), substituted “Persons detained or designated as being of high risk” for “Interim limits” in section catchline.
Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 96–43, § 7(2), struck out provisions limiting the trial priority to be accorded persons specified in cls. (1) and (2) of this subsection to the interim period commencing ninety days following July 1, 1975 and ending on the date immediately preceding the date on which the time limits provided for under section 3161(b) and (c) of this title become effective.
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 96–43, § 7(3), struck out provisions making trial priority provisions of this subsection applicable during an interim period only and requiring the trial of any person detained or designated by the government as being of high risk on or before the first day of such interim period to commence no later than ninety days following the first day of the period and inserted provision excluding the periods of delay specified in section 3161(h) of this title in computing the time limitation of this section.
Notes of Decisions
United States v. James E. Howard, United States of Am. v. Berry L. Palmer, 590 F.2d 564 (4th Cir. 1979).
· cites it 7× “1977), holding that the defendant and his counsel were partially at fault for the delay and thus the interim provisions of the Speedy Trial Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3164 , were not violated. Alternatively, the court held that Howard’s ten-day period of hospitalization, which would be…”
United States v. Lewis, 425 F. Supp. 1166 (D. Conn. 1977).
· cites it 7× “* The defendant has moved for release from custody pursuant to the Speedy Trial Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3164 , and Section 10(a) of the Speedy Trial Plan for the District of Connecticut.”
United States v. James L. Bigelow, 544 F.2d 904 (6th Cir. 1976).
· cites it 8× “18 U.S.C. § 3164 (c). Defendant is charged with having sent to the President of the United States, and to others, a letter dated May 22, 1976, which concluded: THERE IS ONLY ONE FEASIBLE WAY TO COUNTER SUCH A STRONG AND PERVASIVE GOVERNMENTAL AND BUSINESS ENSLAVEMENT AND THAT IS…”
United States v. Gary Russell Bullock, 551 F.2d 1377 (5th Cir. 1977).
· cites it 4× “” 18 U.S.C. § 3164 . As to these, the Act clearly mandates that they shall be brought to trial no later than 90 days “following the beginning of such continuous detention or designation of high risk by the attorney for the Government.”
United States v. Starnes, 157 F. App'x 687 (5th Cir. 2005).
· cites it 4× “V Starnes also challenges his sentences based on the Speedy Trial Act, arguing that the sentences should be vacated and he should be released as a sanction for the government’s violation of 18 U.S.C. § 3164 (b). The record demonstrates that Starnes was tried 404 days after his…”
United States v. Paul Torres, III, 995 F.3d 695 (9th Cir. 2021).
· cites it 2× “Third, 18 U.S.C. § 3164 (b) provides that the trial of any defendant incarcerated awaiting trial “shall commence not later than ninety days following the beginning of such continuous detention[.”
United States v. John Dillard O'Bryant, 775 F.2d 1528 (11th Cir. 1985).
· cites it 2× “18 U.S.C. § 3164 (b). Initially we note that the proper redress for a violation of section 3164 is the release of a defendant, not the dismissal of an indictment.”
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