State v. Brown

Defendant appeals a judgment of conviction for driving while suspended (DWS), ORS 811.182(4), raising three assignments of error. We reject defendant’s second and third assignments of error without discussion. In his first assignment of error, defendant argues that the trial court erred when it denied his motion to dismiss on statutory speedy trial grounds. As explained below, the record suggests that the trial court applied an incorrect legal standard when it denied defendant’s motion to dismiss. Because application of the correct legal standard would require the trial court to make factual…