City of Westlake v. Cougill

The cause at bar presents two issues: (1) Whether the time within which appellee was required by R. C. 2945.71 et seq. to be brought to trial expired prior to his waiver of the statutory mandate, and (2) whether the *232execution of the waiver form in this cause (which seeks a continuance and, by its title, purports to waive appellee’s speedy trial rights under R. C. 2945.71, et seq.) removed the case from the operation of those statutes.

R. C. 2945.71(B) (1) provides that an individual charged with a misdemeanor, other than a minor misdemeanor, must be brought to trial “ [w] ithin forty-five days…