The United States Government may have made a blunder in the Buju Banton drug trial.

According to reports, the US government failed to bring Buju to trial before 70 days, a right guaranteed under the Sixth Amendment.

The Speedy Trial Act refers to one of the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution to defendants in criminal proceedings. The right to a speedy trial, guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, is intended to make sure that defendants are not subjected to unreasonably lengthy incarceration prior to a fair trial.

Buju’s lawyers last week filed an appeal in a Georgia Court of Appeal citing the violation of the act and that the Grammy winning entertainer was entrapped.

Violations of the act may result in dismissal of a criminal case. 

Buju Banton is currently serving a 10-year sentence in a Federal Correctional Institution in Miami, Florida.