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It may be the defense that caused the delays.
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This. It does not seem unusual for any kind of serious, or semi complex murder case to take up to five years to get to trial, And a goodly portion of this is due to defense request.

For example, in the case of the TTU student that killed the TTU police officer that we have a thread on elsewhere, the student chose as his defense lawyer a guy who was also defending the Robert Durst case out in California. The lawyer had to completely Robert Durst case before he could handle the TTU student case, so everybody sat and waited until he was done. The defendant gets the choice of his lawyer, and if he’s willing to sit in jail and wait for his lawyer, to get freed up, then, so be it. That does not count against the “speedy trial” calculations.