Singleton v. State

Andrews, Judge.

On appeal from the trial court’s denial of his plea in bar, Steve Singleton argues that the court abused its discretion because the State took more than four years from his arrest to bring the case to a ruling on the plea. We vacate and remand for further proceedings *638because the trial court considered only 19 of the 55 months of delay between Singleton’s arrest and the denial of his plea, with the result that it could not properly exercise its discretion as to whether his constitutional right to a speedy trial was violated.

We examine Singleton’s claim under the four-part test…