An unexplained 15-year delay in the sentencing of a woman who had already rehabilitated herself violated the due process clause, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday. Shenna DeLoache Ray's bizarre case led the appeals court to confront several issues for the first time, chief among them its ruling that the right to a speedy trial in the Sixth Amendment applies only to trials, and not to sentencing proceedings.
August 28, 2009 at 12:00 AM
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An unexplained 15-year delay in the sentencing of a woman who had already rehabilitated herself violated the due process clause, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
The mail fraud case involving Shenna DeLoache Ray lay dormant until Eastern District Judge Thomas C. Platt sentenced her to one day in prison and six months in a halfway house in 2008.
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