David Anthony Battle v. United States
1. Whether the district court failed to make proper ends of justice findings to justify a sixteen month delay in the trial based upon pronouncements contained in the court's general orders addressing COVID-19.
2. Whether it was possible to hold a jury trial safely where the presence of COVID-19 was otherwise uncontrolled in local contract jail facilities where Mr. Battle was in pretrial custody in what constituted oppressive pretrial incarceration within the meaning of the Sixth Amendment and the Speedy Trial Act.
3. Whether a district court must dismiss an indictment with prejudice as a remedy for the lower court's violation of defendant's constitutional and statutory rights to a Speedy Trial.
Whether the district court failed to make proper ends of justice findings to justify a sixteen month delay in the trial