WILLIAMS
v.
UNITED STATES

U.S. | 1955-10-17
No. 24
350 U.S. 857 Supreme Court of the United States (1955) Negative Treatment
Also reported at: 76 S. Ct. 100 · 1955 U.S. LEXIS 273 · SCDB 1955-057
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Per_curiam
Per Curiam:

Certiorari, 348 U. S. 926, to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Argued October 13,1955. Decided October 17, 1955.

Per Curiam:

This case is controlled by the California doctrine of respondeat superior. The judgment is vacated and the case is remanded for consideration in the light of that governing principle.

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    …Beavers v. Haubert, 198 U. S. 77 (1905); Pollard v. United States, 352 U. S. 354 (1957); United States v. Ewell, 383 U. S. 116 (1966); United States v. Marion, 404 U. S. 307 (1971). See also United States v. Provoo, 17 F. R. D. 183 (D. Md.), aff’d, 350 U. S. 857 (1955). The Court’s opinion in Klopfer v. North Carolina, 386 U. S. 213 (1967), established that the right to a sjoeedy trial is “fundamental” and is imposed by the 'Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment on the States.2 See Smith v. Hooey,…
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    …Act does not allude to delay before arrest. Most of the States that ratified the Bill of Rights had either adopted the British Act or passed a similar law, Petition of Provoo, 17 F. R. D. 183, 197 n. 6 (Md.), aff’d sub nom. United States v. Provoo, 350 U. S. 857 (1955), and many of them had speedy trial provisions in their own constitutions which were modeled on the British Act. Article 8 of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, which may have been the model Madison used for the Sixth Amendment, Rutland, supr…
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