Internal Documents Reveal How Bronx Prosecutors Are Taught to Slow Down Cases

"According to the documents, prosecutors are being taught courtroom techniques with the explicit goal of stretching out cases, thereby undermining defendants’ rights to a speedy trial. The right to a speedy trial is enshrined in the Constitution’s Sixth Amendment, but how it’s enforced at the state level is largely left to courts and state law."

The Appeal

August 2, 2018