Rhoton v. State

RUCKER, Judge.

Appellant-petitioner Junior Rhoton (Rho-ton) appeals the denial of his petition for post-conviction relief and raises three issues for our review which we rephrase as follows:

1. Whether charging Rhoton by Information rather than by grand jury indictment violated the federal and state constitutions by depriving Rho-ton of the protections afforded by an adversarial hearing to determine probable cause;

2. Whether Rhoton's right to speedy trial was violated;

3. Whether Rhoton received ineffective assistance of trial counsel.

We affirm.

On March 14, 1988, Rhoton was charged by way of…