Wilson v. State

We hold, contrary to the decision of the Circuit Court for Carroll County, and in accord with the decision of the Court of Special Appeals, that the prosecution of Robert Michael Wilson by the State of Maryland for crimes he is alleged to have committed in May 1971 is not precluded by the speedy trial guarantee of the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. In so holding, however, we bear in mind, as we emphasized in Jones v. State, 279 Md. 1, 7, 367 A. 2d 1 (1976), cert. denied, 431 U. S. 916 (1977), that “[a] defendant has no duty to bring himself to trial; the State has…