Opinion ID: 4680741
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Length of Defendant’s Pretrial Detention

Text: Torres has been detained since August 26, 2019, and his trial is currently set for May 25, 2021. Assuming his trial begins in May 2021, he will have been 23 detained for twenty-one months. This lengthy detention has been prolonged over Torres’s consistent objection, asserted for the first time over one year ago, and his persistent requests to be released with appropriate conditions. The government conceded at oral argument that the length of Torres’s pretrial detention weighs in favor of recognizing a due process violation. We agree. See United States v. Myers, 930 F.3d 1113, 1119 (9th Cir. 2019) (explaining that “delays approaching one year are presumptively prejudicial” for Sixth Amendment purposes) (citation omitted); see also United States v. Gonzales Claudio, 806 F.2d 334, 340–41 (2d Cir. 1986) (describing the ninety-day period as a “point of reference in our consideration of the constitutional limit on such detention”).