Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Padilla-Martinez v. United States

434 U.S. 847

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1977-10-03
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • Triggering the STA’s protections as of the date of the state indictment would “require that the [federal] government rush headlong into a . . . prosecution whenever a defendant had been arrested on state charges as the result of federal participation in an ongoing investigation.”

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C. A. 2d Cir. Certiorari denied. Reported below: 552 F. 2d 435.