State v. Hall

Defendant appeals a judgment of conviction for misdemeanor driving under the influence of intoxicants (DUII). ORS 813.010. He assigns error to the trial court’s denial of his motion to dismiss on speedy trial grounds under former ORS 135.747 (2011), repealed by Or Laws 2013, ch 431, § l.1 We affirm, concluding that the state bears responsibility for a total of 16 months of delay leading up to defendant’s trial. Because most of the state-attributable delay is due to docket congestion for which the trial court gave a detailed and reasonable explanation, we conclude that defendant was brought to…