Bradley Stinn

 “The law’s delay” is proverbial; there are snails sculpted on the flagpoles at the Supreme Court. But how long should a person sit in prison waiting for the court that convicted him to decide whether what he was convicted of doing was actually a crime? Bradley J. Stinn’s lawyers think he’s been waiting too long—and they’ve asked an appellate court to order Judge Nina Gershon to make a decision.

For years, your life has been crashing around you. You were a corporate president; now, you are a criminal defendant. The jury has reached a verdict, and you wait to find out whether you will be found guilty of a poorly defined crime that could nevertheless send you to prison for years.