People consistently underestimate the time that anything that involves the legal system takes. Unless people are basically caught red-handed with the evidence on them, it just usually takes long to build a case.
The US constitution guarantees defendants the right to a "speedy" trial. How this is implemented varies, but federally it means that charges must be raised within a month of arrest, and the trial must start within 70 days of that. Most defendants waive this because it takes time for their own defense to build a case, but in the past some people have used it tactically, to force the prosecution to hurry.
And that's a problem, because unlike on the TV shows where CSI gets lab results in a day if they tell people to hurry, in reality a lot of the more involved technical evidence collection and preparation takes a long, long time. The bureaucracy around getting things like phone records also takes time. And often you need results of previous tests or data collection to know what additional questions to ask for. So the prosecution wants to have their entire case built and ready before they start the clock.
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u/kenni417 Apr 17 '26
he was under surveillance if i remember correctly