State v. Holtslander

The issue before us, as acknowledged by the Court’s opinion, is whether the trial court’s granting of the motion to dismiss1 was an abuse of discretion to the point of reversible error. The Court, so it seems to me, goes to great length in finding fault with the district court’s application of the Barker factors in only two instances: (1) with that court’s statement that the police did not use their “best efforts” to locate the defendant, and (2) with that court’s analysis of the prejudice factor. I find no error in either.

One who reads the Court’s opinion without access to the trial court’s…