State v. Hayes

Sievers, Judge.

Vernon E. Hayes, Jr., was charged with homicide by child abuse. He claims that judicial delay, a State’s continuance, and an interlocutory appeal initiated by the State deprived him of his statutory and constitutional rights to a speedy trial. Hayes appeals from the order of the district court for Lancaster County which denied his motion to discharge on speedy trial grounds. We address the effect of the prosecution’s interlocutory appeal of a trial court’s order suppressing evidence on the speedy trial rights of a defendant, a matter of first impression.

I. FACTUAL AND…