Opinion ID: 772647
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Delay in Going to Trial

Text: 26 The STA also requires a defendant's trial to begin within seventy days of the filing of the information or indictment. See 18 U.S.C. S 3161(c)(1). Once again, the statute excludes certain periods of delay, see id.S 3161(h)(1)-(9), including [a]ny period of delay resulting from other proceedings concerning the defendant. Id. S 3161(h)(1). 27 Arellano-Rivera contends that his trial did not occur within the seventy-day window prescribed by the STA. See id. S 3161(c)(1). Specifically, he points out that the government first filed an information against him on November 4, 1999, but that his trial did not commence until March 14, 2000 -approximately 131 days later. We disagree that any STA violation occurred. 28 First, Arellano-Rivera was tried and convicted of violating S 1326. The prosecutor's information charged ArellanoRivera with the wholly separate offense of violatingS 1325. The relevant charging document for purposes of the seventyday time calculation is the grand jury indictment charging Arellano-Rivera under S 1326. The government obtained thisindictment on January 5, 2000, sixty nine days before his trial began. Therefore, there was no STA violation. 29 Second, even if we considered theS 1325 information the relevant charging document, we would still exclude from the seventy-day time computation periods attributable to other proceedings. See id. S 3161(h)(1). As discussed above, all the time between the filing of the S 1325 information and the S 1326 indictment -from November 4, 1999, to January 5, 2000 (a total of sixty two days) -is properly excluded as delay resulting from other proceedings. See id. S 3161(h)(1)(D); Lopez-Osuna, 242 F.3d 1191, 1196; see generally, Section III.A.1, supra. Excluding this time, Arellano-Rivera's trial commenced sixty nine days after the filing of the S 1325 information, and therefore there was no STA violation.