State v. Walker

Defendant appeals a judgment of conviction for two counts of driving under the influence of intoxicants (DUII) (Counts 2 and 3), possession of a controlled substance (Count 1), and reckless driving (Count 4). He advances two assignments of error. He first contends that the trial court’s “unreasonable, myopic and arbitrary insistence upon expeditiousness” and its “single minded obsession with pushing this case to trial” amounted to an abuse of discretion when the court denied his last-minute motion from his third, newly retained counsel for a continuance of the trial. We affirm the trial…