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- 1. a criminal trial held after minimal delay, as considered to be a citizen's constitutional right.
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Human right to trial without arbitrary or indefinite delay
In criminal law, the right to a speedy trial is a human right under which it is asserted that a government prosecutor may not delay the trial of a criminal suspect arbitrarily and indefinitely. Otherwise, the power to impose such delays would effectively allow prosecutors to send anyone to jail for an arbitrary length of time without trial, expressed as the maxim Justice delayed is justice denied.... Wikipedia