Judge keeps man with no lawyer and mental ability of a first-grader in jail 34 years after his conviction was overturned ruling it's his own fault he didn't ask for a speedy trialNY Daily NewsApr. 21, 2014 |
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A Texas inmate with the critical thinking ability of a first-grader has been waiting some 34 years for a new trial. And now he'll wait some more. In a recent ruling, a judge decided that Jerry Hartfield's constitutional right to a speedy trial had not been violated — despite being imprisoned since 1980 on a murder conviction that had been overturned — because, in essence, Hartfield did not ask for a new trial. Read More |