The need for speed

Criminal cases rarely move as quickly as clients would like. Dockets fill up, hearings get postponed, and what should be a short wait often stretches into weeks or months of uncertainty. For clients in custody, each delay feels personal – another day separated from family, work, and freedom. 

Used well, statutory and constitutional speedy trial provisions provide attorneys with structured ways to respond when delays begin to undermine fairness. Prompt disposition requests give incarcerated clients an additional way to seek movement on pending charges. 

Speedy Trials and Prompt Dispositions: What Every Lawyer Should Know provides practical insight into how these doctrines affect case strategy, negotiation, and the remedies courts may order when constitutional or statutory timelines are breached. 

What you’ll learn:

• How statutory speedy trial demands interact with custody status, including when they can secure a client’s release while a case is pending
• Key components of a constitutional speedy trial analysis and how they can support a dismissal with prejudice
• When a prompt disposition request under Wis. Stat. §971.11 applies and how to leverage it to increase pressure on the state
• Practical timing considerations involving continuances, delays, prejudice, and strategic filings

The clock is ticking

Get clear guidance on assessing deadlines, safeguarding client rights, and using timing to advance your case strategy from Speedy Trials and Prompt Dispositions: What Every Lawyer Should Know.

The need for speed

Criminal cases rarely move as quickly as clients would like. Dockets fill up, hearings get postponed, and what should be a short wait often stretches into weeks or months of uncertainty. For clients in custody, each delay feels personal – another day separated from family, work, and freedom. 

Used well, statutory and constitutional speedy trial provisions provide attorneys with structured ways to respond when delays begin to undermine fairness. Prompt disposition requests give incarcerated clients an additional way to seek movement on pending charges. 

Speedy Trials and Prompt Dispositions: What Every Lawyer Should Know provides practical insight into how these doctrines affect case strategy, negotiation, and the remedies courts may order when constitutional or statutory timelines are breached.