Opinion ID: 763759
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Heading: Millet's Detainer Act Claim

Text: 209 At the time Millet's federal charges arose, he was serving a state criminal sentence and had been imprisoned as a contract boarder at a federal prison in Lompoc, California. On January 13, 1995, the United States took custody of Millet in Connecticut and he was arraigned on January 17, 1995. On June 15, 1995, Millet moved to dismiss his case on the grounds that he had not been brought to trial within the 120-day time limit established under Article IV(c) of the Interstate Agreement on Detainers (Detainers Act). 15 The district court denied Millet's motion. 210 Absent tolling, the 120-day clock under the Detainers Act entitled Millet to be brought to trial on or before May 17, 1995. Although Millet did not file any pre-trial motions, his co-defendants had such motions pending throughout the period of January 17 to the time the trial commenced on July 5, 1995. Millet argues that the time taken to address his co-defendants' pre-trial motions, the primary reason for delay after May 17, should not have been used to toll the time in which Millet was brought to trial under the Detainers Act. This argument lacks merit. 211 A delay caused by the filing of pre-trial motions by co-defendants is excludable time under the Detainers Act and, therefore, tolls the 120-day clock. See United States v. Cephas, 937 F.2d 816, 821 (2d Cir.1991); see also United States v. Collins, 90 F.3d 1420, 1427 (9th Cir.1996); United States v. Odom, 674 F.2d 228, 231-32 (4th Cir.1982). In Millet's case, the 120-day Detainers Act clock started on January 17. All of the delay after May 17 and until the day before Millet's trial actually commenced was excludable time because of the pre-trial motions filed by his co-defendants. Therefore, there was no Detainers Act violation under Article IV(c).