Trial Act. See 18 U.S.C. §§ 401(3) (criminal contempt); 3161 (Speedy Trial ■ Act). This court has jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We affirm. Because the parties are familiar with the facts of the case, we do not recite them here. • The arrest order for Richmond specifically limited the maximum penalty to six months imprisonment, and thus Richmond was prosecuted and sentenced only for a petty offense. The Speedy Trial Act specifically excludes from its application Class B and Class C misdemeanors, those petty offenses for which the maximum sentence is six months imprisonment or less. 18 U.S.C. §§ 3172(2), 3559(a)(7). Petty offenses are exempted from both the requirement of a jury trial and the Speedy Trial Act. See United States v. Baker, 641 F.2d 1311, 1319 (9th Cir.1981) (<HOLDING>); United States v. Carpenter, 91 F.3d 1282 (9th
holding that whether a pretrial motion actually caused or is expected to cause delay of trial is irrelevant to the speedy trial act holding that delay resulting from prior incompetence to stand trial does not violate speedy trial guarantee holding speedy trial act does not apply to petty offenses holding that like most rights speedy trial can be waived holding a trial court erred in determining that a motion to suppress was waived by a speedy trial demand