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In reply to the discussion: Those who are vehemently criticising Merrick Garland [View all]qazplm135
(7,629 posts)Rules.
And they have processes for bringing charges, whether an information or an indictment.
You follow those two, and guess what, you've satisfied due process.
DOJ goes a little farther. https://www.justice.gov/jm/jm-9-27000-principles-federal-prosecution#:~:text=9%2D27.200%20%2D%20Initiating%20and%20Declining,prosecution%20without%20taking%20other%20action.
But ultimately nothing in the DOJ requires that due process means anything other than reasonable cause to believe a crime has been committed and a reasonable belief that a conviction is possible.
It doesn't require super duper surety. It doesn't require that everyone is cool with the prosecution. It doesn't require anything extra than any other case.
And by no means does it require 4 years+ for trial to start.
Speedy trial wasn't implicated. So the only thing that matters for due process I linked for you. Nothing in those principles (which isn't even law, isn't all required by law or due process and is more conservative than most other forums of prosecution) required four plus years
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