What is the current state's obligation to the state to determine the guilt or innocence of an accused?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Cohen v. United States, 366 F.2d 363 (9th Cir. 1966):
The question here raised involves a nice balancing of two rights of society the primary obligation to the state to ascertain the guilt or innocence of the accused, and the accused's right to have the accusation determined without oppressive delay.1
In Frankel v. Woodrough, 7 F.2d 796, 798 (8th Cir. 1925), that circuit states, as dictum:
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