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</html>";s:4:"text";s:35090:"U.S. 647, 652] Doggett v. United States: Breathing New Life Into the Right to a Speedy Trial To fully understand the ramifications of the United States Supreme Court's decision in Doggett v. United States', one must first examine the historical underpinnings of the right to a speedy trial. Indeed, Moore makes this assumption quite explicit, observing that prejudice is "inevitably present in every case to some extent, for every defendant will either be incarcerated pending trial or on bail subject to substantial restrictions on his liberty." Moore, like Barker, is clearly premised on the assumption that the defendant invoking the protection of the Speedy Trial Clause has been subjected to the evils against which the Clause was designed to protect. For six years, the Government's investigators made no serious effort to test their progressively more questionable assumption that Doggett Not surprisingly, the Court seizes on this concession with relish. Barker, 407 U. S., at 532; see also Smith v. Hooey, 393 U. S. 374,377-379 (1969); United States v. Ewell, 383 U. S. 116, 120 (1966). Doggett (defendant) was indicted on drug conspiracy charges. U.S. 307, 320 United States v. Marion, 404 U.S. 307, 320-323; United States v. MacDonald, 456 U.S. 1, 8; United States v. Loud Hauk, 474 U.S. 302, 312, distinguished. If the Clause does not protect a defendant whose liberty has not been impaired by a delay, then it simply does not protect him; its protections cannot be triggered solely by the government's bad motives. JUSTICE SOUTER delivered the opinion of the Court. have lost their means of defence.'" So engrossed is the Court in applying the multifactor balancing test set forth in Barker that it loses sight of the nature and purpose of the speedy trial guarantee set forth in the Sixth Amendment. [505 no. I do not mean to question Barker's approach, but merely its scope. For the Court compels dismissal of the charges against Doggett not because he was harmed in any way by the delay between his indictment and arrest, I think it fair to say that Barker simply did not contemplate such an unusual situation. If the Clause were in-. Microsoft Edge. The right to counsel, we have held, does not attach until "at or after the initiation of adversary judicial criminal proceedings - whether by way of formal charge, preliminary hearing, indictment, information, or arraignment." With respect to the relevant consideration - the defendants' ability to defend themselves despite the passage of time - they were in precisely the same situation as a defendant who had long since been indicted. 630, 662-663 (1964) (comparing state statutes of limitations for various crimes); Uelmen, Making Sense out of the California Criminal Statute of Limitations, 16 Pac.L.J. See, e. g., Arcadia v. Ohio Power Co., 498 U. S. 73, 77 (1990); Kamen v. Kemper Financial Services, Inc., 500 U. S. 90, 99-100 (1991); United States v. Burke, 504 U. S. 229, 246 (1992) (SCALIA, J., concurring in judgment). Peter H. Doggett, Plaintiff-appellant, v. United States of America, Defendant-appellee, 858 F.2d 555 (9th Cir. Finally, the negligent delay between Doggett's indictment and arrest presumptively prejudiced his ability to prepare an adequate defense. U.S. 514 See, e.g., Arcadia v. Ohio Power Co., Instead, the United States conceded that a defendant whose liberty was in no way impaired by a pretrial delay could nevertheless succeed in a speedy trial claim if the government had intentionally caused the delay for the specific purpose of prejudicing the defense or injuring the defendant in some other significant way. See 84 Stat. Argued October 9, 1991-Reargued February 24,1992Decided June 24, 1992. And it explains Unreasonable delay between indictment and prosecution violates a criminal defendant’s Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial. Secs. On March 18, 1980, two police officers set out We found 2 entries for Preston Doggett in the United States. The Marshal's Service eventually located him during a simple credit check on individuals with outstanding warrants. Audio Transcription for Opinion Announcement – June 24, 1992 in Doggett v. United States William H. Rehnquist: The opinion of the Court in No. . "The speedy trial guarantee is designed to minimize the possibility of lengthy incarceration prior to trial, to reduce the lesser, but nevertheless substantial, impairment of liberty imposed on an accused while released on bail, and to shorten the disruption of life caused by arrest and the presence of unresolved criminal charges." 1980) charges. Brief for United States 30. A defendant prosecuted 10 years after a crime is just as hampered in his ability to defend himself whether he was indicted the week after the crime or the week before the trial - but no one would suggest that the Clause protects him in the latter situation, where the delay did not substantially impair his liberty, either through oppressive incarceration or the anxiety of known criminal charges. (1986) (emphasis added). He naturally moved to dismiss the indictment, arguing that the Government's failure to prosecute him earlier violated his Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial. United States v. Marion, 404 U. S. 307, 320-323; United States v. MacDonald, 456 U. S. 1, 8; United States v. Loud Hawk, 474 U. S. 302, 312, distin-. Our speedy trial standards recognize that pretrial delay is often both inevitable and wholly justifiable. The name Preston Doggett has over 2 birth records, 1 death records, 0 criminal/court records, 4 address records, 2 phone records and more. [505 Doggett v. United States, 505 U.S. 647 (1992), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States. U.S. 647, 664] Thus, had Doggett been indicted shortly before his 1988 arrest, rather than shortly after his 1980 crime, his repose would have been equally shattered - but he would not have even a colorable speedy trial claim. Barker's suggestion that preventing prejudice to the defense is a fundamental and independent objective of the Clause is plainly dictum. Assistant Attorney General Mueller argued the cause for the United States on the original argument. U.S. 73, 77 Yet Doggett did not sign a guilty plea simpliciter, but a conditional guilty plea under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(a)(2), thereby securing the Government's explicit consent to his reservation of "the right to appeal the adverse Court ruling on his Motion to Dismiss for violation of Constitutional Speedy Trial provisions based upon post-indictment delay." 282, 288 (1870)). U.S., at 530 Judge Clark dissented, arguing, among other things, that the majority had placed undue emphasis on Doggett's inability to prove actual prejudice. I t was on this point that the Court of Appeals erred, and on the facts before us, it was reversible error. Just because the Speedy Trial Clause does not independently protect against prejudice to the defense does not, of course, mean that a defendant is utterly unprotected in this regard. delay attributable to the Government's negligence far exceeds the threshold needed to state a speedy trial claim; indeed, we have called shorter delays "extraordinary." Because such statutes are fixed by the legislature and not decreed by. indeed aimed at safeguarding against prejudice to the defense, then it would presumably limit all prosecutions that occur long after the criminal events at issue. The passage of time may make it difficult or impossible for the Government to carry this burden." United States v. Gouveia, The common law recognized no right of criminals to repose. Broce, 488 U. S. 563, 569 (1989), the Government argues that, by pleading guilty, Doggett waived any right to claim that the delay would have prejudiced him had he gone to trial. If the Clause does not protect a defendant whose liberty has not been impaired by a delay, then it simply does not protect him; its protections cannot be triggered solely by the government's bad motives. 474 We begin with hypothetical and somewhat easier cases and work our way to this one. -323; United States v. MacDonald, (emphasis added). U.S. 302, 312 MEMORANDUM OJ'INION Presently pending and ready for review in this 42 U.S.C. The Clause is directed not generally against delay-related prejudice, but against delay-related prejudice to a defendant's liberty. From this the Magistrate implicitly concluded, Magistrate's Report, reprinted at App. It affirmatively endorses the point conceded, thereby embedding in the law the mischievous notion that a defendant is entitled to the protection of the Speedy Trial Clause even though he has suffered none of the harms against which the Clause protects, as long as the government's conduct is sufficiently culpable. U.S. 19, 20 Id., at 311. for Cert. 2 under Driver's orders to arrest Doggett at his parents' house in Raleigh, North Carolina, only to find that he was not there. 474 In context, the cited passages support nothing beyond the principle, which we have independently See Barker, supra, at 533. Ante, at 656. 8 in the united states district court for the western district of tennessee western division marlo doggett, movant, v. united states of america, respondent. ) 407 U. S., at 532. (1972). 63, p. 2. for sloppy work or misplaced priorities, but to protect the legal rights of those individuals harmed thereby. 406 28-34 (Feb. 24, 1992). ." TDC-13-3889 CITY OF HYATTSVILLE, MAR YLAND, el at., Defendants. Thus, while the Court is correct to observe that the defendants in Marion, MacDonald, and Loud Hawk were not subject to formal criminal prosecution during the lengthy period of delay prior to their trials, that observation misses the point of those cases. 630, 652-653 (1954) (comparing state statutes of limitations for various crimes); Uelmen, Making Sense out of the California Criminal Statute of Limitations, 15 Pac. See 84 Stat. 2:13-cv-02716-jpm-tmp cr. The common law recognized no right of criminals to repose. All rights reserved. The Speedy Trial Clause provides no basis for the line the United States advances between negligent governmental conduct, on the. At the hearing on Doggett's speedy trial motion, it introduced no evidence challenging the testimony of Doggett's wife, who said that she did not know of the charges until his arrest, and of his mother, who claimed not to have told him or anyone else that the police had come looking for him. U.S. 647, 656] That explains why a person who has been arrested but not indicted is entitled to the protection of the Clause, see Dillingham, supra, even though technically he has not been "accused" at all. I disagree with the Court's analysis. 3 Our summary reversal in Moore v. Arizona, 414 U. S. 25 (1973) (per curiam), is not to the contrary. U.S. 307 In February, 1980, petitioner Doggett was … Moreover, to the extent that the Barker dictum purports to elevate considerations of prejudice to the defense to fundamental and independent status under the Clause, it cannot be. (1986), for the proposition that the Speedy Trial Clause does not significantly protect a criminal defendant's interest in fair adjudication. Footnote 3 See Marion, supra, at 313-315, 320-322; Dillingham v. United States, 423 U. S. 64, 64-65 (1975) (per curiam). U.S., at 320 In September 1981, Driver found out that Doggett was under arrest on drug charges in Panama and, thinking that a formal extradition request would be futile, simply asked Panama to "expel" Doggett to the United States. . . Secs. 404 U. S., at 322 (quoting Public Schools v. Walker, 9 Wall. [ In this case, moreover, delay is a two-edged sword. The Government is left, then, with its principal contention: that Doggett fails to make out a successful speedy trial claim because he has not shown precisely how he was prejudiced by the delay between his indictment and trial. Simply to trigger a speedy trial analysis, an accused must allege that the interval between accusation and trial has crossed the. In 1980, Marc Gilbert Doggett was indicted in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida on federal drug charges. The Court of Appeals followed this holding, and I believe we should as well. One cannot reasonably construe this agreement to bar Doggett from pursuing as effective an appeal as he could have raised had he not pleaded guilty. His claim meets the Barker v. Wingo, 407 U. S. 514, 530, criteria for evaluating speedy trial claims. ; see also Smith v. Hooey, The passage of time may make it difficult or impossible for the Government to carry this burden." Uviller, 72 Colum.L.Rev., at 1394-1395. The District Court took the recommendation and denied Doggett's motion. No. The Government errs in arguing that the Speedy Trial Clause does not significantly protect a defendant's interest in fair adjudication. (1971); MacDonald, supra; Loud Hawk, supra. U.S. 1, 8 Audio Transcription for Opinion Announcement – June 24, 1992 in Doggett v. United States. [505 United States v. Lewis, 907 F.2d 773, 774, n. 3 (CA8 1990). Our constitutional law has become ever more complex in recent decades. Firefox, or 474 Although the Panamanian authorities promised to comply when their own proceedings had run their course, they freed Doggett the following July and let him go to Colombia, where he stayed with an aunt for several months. In this case, the extraordinary 8 1/2-year lag between Doggett's indictment and arrest clearly suffices to trigger the speedy trial enquiry; That is not to deny that our legal system has long recognized the value of repose, both to the individual and to society. Indeed, that conclusion would generally follow as a matter of course however great the delay, so long as Doggett could not show specific prejudice to his defense. But this possibility of prejudice at trial is not itself sufficient reason to wrench the Sixth Amendment from its proper context." In context, the cited passages support nothing beyond the principle, which we have independently. As we have explained, "the Speedy Trial Clause's core concern is impairment of liberty." That attempt at reconciliation is eminently unpersuasive. There is no basis for concluding that the disruption of an accused's life years after the commission of his alleged crime is an evil independently protected by the Speedy Trial Clause. The proposed witness' information would not have been probative of Greer's involvement in the methamphetamine laboratory in Doggett's garage or in the … United States v. Gouveia, 467 U. S. 180, 188 (1984) (quoting Kirby v. Illinois, 406 U. S. 682, 689 (1972) (plurality opinion)). 404 U. S., at 320 (emphasis added). In my view, the choice presented is not a hard one. By setting forth a number of relevant factors, Barker provided this contextual inquiry with at least a modicum of structure. Arizona v. Youngblood, 488 U. S. 51 (1988). Footnote 4 based on textual and historical grounds, see Marion, supra, at 313-320, that the Sixth Amendment right of the accused to a speedy trial has no application beyond the confines of a formal criminal prosecution. J. Sheppard reargued the cause for petitioner. Moore, like Barker, is clearly premised on the assumption that the defendant invoking the protection of the Speedy Trial Clause has been subjected to the evils against which the Clause was designed to protect. The Government answers Doggett's claim by citing language in three cases, United States v. Marion, 404 U. S. 307, 320-323 (1971), United States v. MacDonald, 456 U. S. 1, 8 (1982), and United States v. Loud Hawk, 474 U. S. 302, 312 (1986), for the proposition that the Speedy Trial Clause does not significantly protect a criminal defendant's interest in fair adjudication. See also F. Wharton, Criminal Pleading and Prac-. 1346(b), 2671-2680 (1982), on a theory that various Naval members and employees of the United States were negligent in that they allowed Gorman to drive off the Naval Weapons Station in an intoxicated condition. (1990); Kamen v. Kemper Financial Services, Inc., The Government goes against the record again in suggesting that Doggett knew of his indictment years before he was arrested. Ante, at 654-655. The portion of the. The District Court's finding that the Government was negligent in pursuing Doggett should be viewed with considerable deference, and neither the Government nor the record provides any reason to reject that finding. The Speedy Trial Clause provides no basis for the line the United States advances between negligent governmental conduct, on the one hand, 2686, 120 L.Ed.2d 520. -536, nor persuasively rebutted, But Barker's factors now appear to have taken on a life of their own. . Doggett then entered a conditional guilty plea under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(a)(2). . ture for Colombia. . 90-857, Marc Gilbert Doggett v. Between diligent prosecution and bad-faith delay, official negligence in bringing an accused to trial occupies the mid-. See United States v. Lovasco, 456 While the United States argued essentially that a defendant's speedy trial rights cannot be violated where he is neither incarcerated nor subject to the anxiety of known criminal charges, it did not claim that this was invariably so. See Doggett v. United States, 505 U.S. 647, 652 n.1 (1992); United States v. Gomez, 67 F.3d 1515, 1521 (10th Cir. At the hearing on Doggett's speedy trial motion, it introduced no evidence challenging the testimony of Doggett's wife, who said that she did not know of the charges until his arrest, and of his mother, who claimed not to have told him or anyone else that the police had come looking for him. no. Held: The delay between Doggett's indictment and arrest violated his right to a speedy trial. Thus, it was unaware that he reentered this country in 1982 and subsequently married, earned a college degree, found steady employment, lived openly under his own name, and stayed within the law. 1265, 1291, as amended, 21 U.S.C. 383 1 Depending on the nature of the charges, the lower courts have generally found postaccusation delay "presumptively prejudicial" at least as it approaches one year. Doggett then entered a conditional guilty plea under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(a)(2), See United States v. Lovasco, 431 U. S. 783 (1977). For if defendants can bring successful speedy trial claims even though they have not been "incarcerated or subjected to other substantial restrictions on their liberty," United States v. Loud Hawk, 474 U. S. 302, 312 (1986), then the Clause's protections necessarily extend beyond those core concerns. 8 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE WESTERN DIVISION MARLO DOGGETT, Movant, v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Respondent.))))))))))) In my view, application of Barker presupposes that an accused has been subjected to the evils against which the Speedy Trial Clause is directed-and, as I have explained, neither pretrial delay nor the disruption of life is itself such an evil. The touchstone of the speedy trial right, after all, is the substantial deprivation of liberty that typically accompanies an "accusation," not the accusation itself. U.S., at 122 for sloppy work or misplaced priorities, but to protect the legal rights of those individuals harmed thereby. Justia Annotations is a forum for attorneys to summarize, comment on, and analyze case law published on our site. Were this true, Barker's third factor, concerning invocation of the right to a speedy trial, would be weighed heavily against him. In. We reverse the judgment of the Court of Appeals and remand the case for proceedings consistent with this opinion. See Barker, supra, at 533. Doggett did not know about the indictment and left the country for two years. threshold dividing ordinary from "presumptively prejudicial" delay, The Government answers Doggett's claim by citing language in three cases, United States v. Marion , 404 U.S. 307, 320-323 (1971), United States v. MacDonald , 456 U.S. 1, 8 (1982), and United States v. 414 The Court refuses to acknowledge this conflict. Not surprisingly, the Court seizes on this concession with relish. Whenever a criminal trial takes place long after the events at issue, the defendant may be prejudiced in any number of ways. Such statutes not only protect a defendant from prejudice to his defense (as discussed above), but also balance his interest in repose against society's interest in the apprehension and punishment of criminals. In my view, it does not, for much the same reasons set forth above. See also MacDonald, 456 U. S., at 8 ("The Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial is ... not primarily intended to prevent prejudice to the defense caused by passage of time; that interest is protected primarily by the Due Process Clause and by statutes of limitations").4. Cf. See Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp., 496 U. S. 384, 402 (1990); McAllister v. United States, 348 U. S. 19, 20-22 (1954); 9 C. Wright & A. Miller, Federal Practice and Procedure § 2590 (1971). U.S. 302, 315 The touchstone of the speedy trial right, after all, is the substantial deprivation of liberty that typically accompanies an "accusation," not the accusation itself. See Moore v. Arizona, [505 App. Even though a defendant may be prejudiced by a pretrial delay, and even though the government may be unable to provide a valid justification for that delay, the Clause does not come into play unless the delay impairs the defendant's liberty. Instead, we have required a showing of actual prejudice to the defense before weighing it in the balance. Doggett's travels abroad had not wholly escaped the Government's notice, however. That explains why a person who has been arrested but not indicted is entitled to the protection of the Clause, see Dillingham, supra, even though technically he has not been "accused" at alP And it ex-, 2 In this regard, it is instructive to compare the Sixth Amendment's speedy trial right to its right to counsel, which also applies only to an "accused." . 502 The majority agreed with the Magistrate that Doggett had not shown actual prejudice, and, attributing the Government's delay to "negligence" rather than "bad faith," id., at 578-579, it concluded that Barker's first three factors did not weigh so heavily against the Government as to make proof of specific prejudice unnecessary. -176 (1991). While. Justia makes no guarantees or warranties that the annotations are accurate or reflect the current state of law, and no annotation is intended to be, nor should it be construed as, legal advice. expressly reserving the right to appeal his ensuing conviction on the speedy trial claim. Facts of the case. While accurate in the vast majority of cases, that observation is not inevitably true - as this case shows. See, e. g., Gouveia, supra, at 189-190; McNeil v. Wisconsin, 501 U. S. 171, 175-176 (1991). As the complexity of legal doctrines increases, moreover, so too does the danger that their foundational principles will become obscured. In his recommendation to the District Court, the Magistrate contended that this failure to demonstrate particular prejudice sufficed to defeat Doggett's speedy trial claim. U.S. 647, 650] The DEA later found out that Doggett was in custody in Panama on unrelated charges. On its face, the Speedy Trial Clause is written with such breadth that, taken literally, it would forbid the government to delay the trial of an "accused" for any reason at all. As noted in text, the Due Process Clause is the proper recourse for an accused whose defense is materially prejudiced by bad-faith governmental behavior. That attempt at reconciliation is eminently unpersuasive. v. Civil Action No. On September 25, 1982, he passed unhindered through Customs in New York City and settled down in Virginia. 4 U.S., at 322 U.S., at 322 Thus, it was unaware that he reentered this country in 1982 and subsequently married, earned a college degree, found steady employment, lived openly under his own name, and stayed within the law. 404 He naturally moved to dismiss the indictment, arguing that the Government's failure to prosecute him earlier violated his Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial. While not compelling relief in every case where bad-faith delay would make relief virtually automatic, neither is negligence automatically tolerable simply because the accused cannot demonstrate exactly how it has prejudiced him. (1972): "[l]ength of delay, the reason for the delay, the defendant's assertion of his right, and prejudice to the defendant." It is the Government that bears the burden of proving its case beyond a reasonable doubt. 35, 76-79 (1983) (same). In February 1980, petitioner Doggett was indicted on federal drug charges, but he left the country before the Drug Enforcement Agency could secure his arrest. Get full address, contact info, background report and more! I do not mean to question Barker's approach, but merely its scope. Never, until today, have we confronted a case where a defendant subjected to a lengthy delay after indictment nonetheless failed to suffer any substantial impairment of his liberty. Thus, our toleration of such negligence varies inversely with its protractedness, cf. The Government answers Doggett's claim by citing language in three cases, United States v. Marion, U.S. 514, 530 Cf. 42-44, and the Court of Appeals expressly reaffirmed, 906 F.2d, at 579-580, that Doggett had won the evidentiary battle on this point. 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