(Answered):How Much Time Must Take Place Before A Trial Is Not Speedy . . . .

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How much time must take place before a trial is NOT speedy?

Take the case of Jonathan Boyer, who killed Bradlee Marsh in 2002 but whose case did not go to trial until 2009, seven years later. In 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court failed to uphold Boyer’s speedy trial appeal even though he claimed that most of the seven-year delay between his arrest and murder trial was the result of inadequate funding to pay for his court-appointed defense attorneys. For the first five years after he was arrested, the state did not have the money to pay for the