State v. Manzanares

OPINION

RANSOM, Justice.

1. The State appealed to the Court of Appeals from the district court’s dismissal of criminal proceedings against Ventura Manzanares for violation of his right to a speedy trial. The district court had concluded that because almost eleven months passed since the indictment of Manzanares, his right to a speedy trial was presumptively violated. The Court of Appeals deemed the appeal to present a significant question of law under the New Mexico Constitution, namely whether this Court’s grant of an extension of time for trial beyond the six-month limit of SCRA 1986, 5-604…