Legal Opinion
Pierce v. State Ex Rel. Department of Public Safety
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided May 6, 2014No. 111,418, 111,419, 111,420PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WATT, J.:
T1 Certiorari was granted to address a single issue. 1 Was the delay of approximately twenty months in scheduling a revocation hearing aimed at suspending the driving privileges of the plaintiff/appellee was a violation of the constitutional right to a speedy trial guaranteed by the Okla. Const. art. 2, § 67. 2
{2 The driver lived under the cloud of a pending revocation proceeding for some twenty (20) months. Knowing that its complaining witness was scheduled to be deployed to serve his country, the Department intentionally delayed a hearing, not only depriving the driver of being…
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