Legal Opinion · Dissent

Zanetti v. State

Wyoming Supreme Court

Decided November 22, 1989No. 88-281Published

1DissentUrbigkit, Justice

I remain convinced a trial court should not take either a guilty plea or a nolo contendere plea when the charged defendant asserts his factual innocence to any *140criminal offense and only justifies plea on some external “coercion” by failure to be provided a speedy trial and a pending civil lawsuit as is demonstrated in this appeal. See Martin v. State, 780 P.2d 1354 (Wyo.1989), Urbigkit, J., dissenting. It is not the nature of a speedy trial right as either jurisdictional or non-jurisdictional in Wyoming, see Phillips v. State, 774 P.2d 118 (Wyo.1989); Harvey v. State, 774 P.2d 87 (Wyo.1989);…

2Cases cited12 opinions

  1. Menna v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
  2. Harvey v. StateWyoming Supreme Court · 1989
  3. State v. GodekSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1980
  4. Phillips v. StateWyoming Supreme Court · 1989
  5. United States v. Frank Steven DormanCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1974

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