The following excerpt is from U.S. v. Burdeau, 168 F.3d 352 (9th Cir. 1999):
3 The only case in which this court has held that a Rule 48(a) motion was untimely was Hirabayashi v. United States, 828 F.2d 591, 607-08 (9th Cir.1987), in which the appellate proceedings had concluded over forty years earlier.
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