Under the laws on extradition, the issuing agency has a reasonable time to come to pick up the subject and unless extradition is waived there would be a court hearing where the sufficiency of the warrants would have to be proved (not the sufficiency of the charges). How this process works is that the DA in the jurisdiction where the warrants were issued will review the case to determine if they want to prosecute and pay for extradition. If they decide they want to prosecute they must make a request to the Governor of GA who has to review the case and if the governor's office decides the case is worthy of extradition, they make a request to the Governor of MI who reviews the request and determines if it is sufficient and then approves it and refers it to the MI court to issue the extradition based upon the governor's order. As you can see because of the steps involved this process can take sometimes 8-10 months.

As far as an attorney, you can hire him an attorney to make a motion to the court in MI for his release and seek to move the process forward. However, there is no right to appointment of counsel until a hearing is held before the judge.

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The time frame on the trial you are talking about is if he invokes his sixth amendment rights to a speedy trial, but this is not automatic he must actually have his attorney file a speedy trial motion.. As far as the time for the process of extradition, most extraditions are completed in 30 days, UNLESS the state with the warrant can show reasonable cause as to why it is taking so long for the delay and this is when they can hold him for several months as long as they can present reason to the court for the delay.

At the hearing on extradition he would be provided an attorney if one has not already been hired for him before then. The charges will be read and this is where he would be given a chance to waive his hearing for extradition and agree to return to GA to face the charges.

The reading of his Miranda rights is not required. The only time those rights are required is when the police would be questioning him about the crime.

The process with require him held up to 30 days and if GA notifies the state of MI that they are working on extradition and willing to extradite, then they can hold him longer until GA can make arrangements to come and get him with the necessary paperwork as I explained in my first response.