Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Flowers v. Warden
488 U.S. 995
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1988-12-12
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- applying "clearly erroneous" standard of review to trial court's finding that child sexual abuse victim's hearsay statements were "trustworthy" as required by V.R.E. 804a(a)(4)
- no sixth amendment violation even though only reason for 17-month delay, during which defendant was unable to post bail and remained incarcerated, was court docket congestion
- no violation of right to speedy trial despite seventeen-month incarceration caused by congested courts
Citator
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- Authority status
- pending
- Cited by
- 23 opinions
C. A. 2d Cir. Certiorari denied.