A sexual assault survivor waits four years for trial, reliving trauma with each postponement, only to watch witnesses forget crucial details and the case collapse from memory decay. An accused person spends three years in pretrial detention then is acquitted, having lost employment, housing, and relationships while legally innocent. A homicide case takes six years to conclude, with the victim's family experiencing each delay as renewed grief and courts granting stays of proceedings because delay itself violated the accused's constitutional rights.