Lockert v. State

I respectfully dissent. The right of an accused to a speedy trial is a fundamental principle of constitutional law guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution and by Article I, § 12 of the Indiana Constitution. Crawford v. State, 669 N.E.2d 141, 145 (Ind.1996); Clark v. State, 659 N.E.2d 548, 551 (Ind.1995). The most fundamental consideration underlying the right to a speedy trial is that the State can neither incarcerate an accused, nor hold a pending charge over the defendant’s head, indefinitely. Poore v. State, 685 N.E.2d 36, 40 (Ind.1997). In other words, no…