What is the delay between trial and sentencing in a murder case?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Greenberger v. Superior Court, 219 Cal.App.3d 487, 267 Cal.Rptr. 849 (Cal. App. 1990):
A 20 month delay 13 was involved in Barker v. Wingo, supra, 407 U.S. 514, 92 S.Ct. 2182. In a mirror image of the instant case, the delay was caused by appellant's murder coperpetrator being tried separately and first. Six times. Mistrials and reversed convictions consumed five years. Only then was appellant, who had spent ten months in custody, brought to trial, convicted, and sentenced to life imprisonment.
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