State v. Romero

Defendant appeals his convictions for unlawful use of a vehicle and possession of a stolen vehicle. In a single assignment of error, he challenges the trial court’s order granting the state’s motion to postpone the trial of this case on the ground that one of the state’s witnesses had moved out of state and was unavailable for trial. As a sanction for the state’s failure to procure the attendance of the witness, the trial court dismissed with prejudice another criminal case, State v. Romero (A137858), in which defendant was charged with unlawful possession of methamphetamine (the drug case).…