State v. Watkins

Leben, J.:

Ticia Watkins committed six felonies related to the sale of cocaine: three counts of sale of cocaine and three counts of failure to have a drug-tax stamp. We know that she committed these offenses because she has been convicted and on appeal she does not suggest any inadequacy in the evidence used to convict her. Rather, the primaiy question she presents to us is whether it was proper to try her at all. She contends that the statute of limitations expired in this case before she was arrested — and her argument is valid unless the warrant was executed “without unreasonable delay.”…