Agrella v. State

Darrell M. Agrella pled nolo contendere to an information charging him with murder in the second degree, robbery and burglary. He reserved his right to appeal “based upon each motion that had been filedt1! ” The issues raised are (1) whether the trial court erred in denying the defendant’s motion for discharge because of pretrial publicity and (2) whether the defendant’s right to a speedy trial was violated even though he waived a speedy trial in order to minimize pretrial publicity.

Agrella was informed against for crimes growing out of the same criminal transactions for which Ronny A. Zamora…