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Most Speedy Trial Act motions miss Bloate's preparation-time holding, the government routinely codes preparation-time exclusions that Bloate forecloses.
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Tinklenberg held that pretrial-motion clock stops do not require the motion to actually delay trial, clean cite that AUSAs concede on the docket review.
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Reply-brief framework anticipates the government's § 3161(h)(7) ends-of-justice continuance defense and the with-or-without-prejudice § 3162(a)(2) factor analysis.
The controlling authority this template is built on.
Before you buy, see the spine of the deliverable. Verbatim quotes are reproduced word for word from the opinion they cite; any attributed summary is labelled as a summary, never dressed up as a quote. Each entry links to its source so you can confirm it yourself. Nothing is paraphrased into a citation it does not support.
- Lead controlling authorityVerbatim quote
“The time granted to prepare pretrial motions is not automatically excludable from the 70-day limit under subsection (h)(1).”
- Supporting authorityVerbatim quote
“§3161(h)(1)(D) stops the Speedy Trial clock from running automatically upon the filing of a pretrial motion irrespective of whether the motion has any impact on when the trial begins.”
- Supporting authorityVerbatim quote
“Because a defendant may not prospectively waive the application of the Act, petitioner's waiver 'for all time' was ineffective.”
- Supporting authorityVerbatim quote
“Congress intended subsection (F) to exclude from the Act's 70-day limitation all time between the filing of a motion and the conclusion of the hearing on that motion, whether or not a delay in holding that hearing is 'reasonably necessary.'”
- Supporting authorityVerbatim quote
“Length of delay, the reason for the delay, the defendant's assertion of his right, and prejudice to the defendant.”
Provenance: every citation above carries a source URL that was fetched and confirmed reachable when the template was authored. A citation without a working source URL does not ship. Counsel of record adapts the motion language to circuit-specific precedent and the facts of the case before filing.
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Frequently asked questions.
What does the audit contain?
Nine sections: cover (your case identifier + jurisdiction stamped on), the indictment-to-trial clock math, the lead authority section anchored on 18 U.S.C. § 3161 + Bloate, the excludable-time framework walking each § 3161(h) category, attaching-precedent citations (Tinklenberg, Zedner, Barker), pre-drafted § 3162(a)(2) motion language, a reply-brief framework anticipating the government's ends-of-justice continuance defense, the with-or-without-prejudice dismissal-standard analysis, and the methods + source URLs bibliography.
Is this legal advice?
No. The template is a pretrial litigation aid modeled on the published statutory text and Supreme Court authority for the Speedy Trial Act. Counsel of record adapts the clock math and motion language to the controlling circuit's doctrine and the actual docket of the case before filing.
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Stripe checkout completes in seconds; the PDF is emailed to the address you provide. Templates are pre-built, there is no per-case data pipeline running.
Do you cite anything I cannot independently verify?
No. Every citation carries a source URL stored alongside. Lead authorities are 18 U.S.C. § 3161, 18 U.S.C. § 3162, Bloate v. United States, 559 U.S. 196 (2010), United States v. Tinklenberg 563 U.S. 647 (2011), Zedner v. United States 547 U.S. 489 (2006), and Barker v. Wingo 407 U.S. 514 (1972). All public-domain, verified during Phase B template authorship per the no-hallucinated-legal-data rule.
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