Lloyd

This case involves an important Speedy Trial Act question. Lloyd and Colquitt were retried in the United States District Court more than a year after their original convictions were overturned on direct appeal. They were originally tried before a jury on one count each of conspiracy to distribute cocaine base and five counts each of distribu *1265 tion of cocaine base. At trial, they admitted selling drugs to a police informant but asserted a public authority defense, arguing that they made the sales in connection with their work as undercover informants for the Tahoma Narcotics Enforcement Team, a police unit in Pierce County, Washington. We reversed their convictions in an unpublished memorandum disposition filed September 15, 1994, concluding that the district court had abused its discretion in cutting off the defendants’ questioning of the police officer in charge of their undercover activities. The mandate issued on December 19, 1994. Retrial commenced in district court, before the same district judge, 393 days later, on January 16, 1996. Again, the defendants admitted to making the drug sales, offered a public authority defense, and were convicted on all counts. They now…