State v. Reimers

Miller, Presiding Judge.

The State appeals the trial court’s order granting Christian Eric Reimers’s motion for discharge and acquittal of three counts of child molestation (OCGA § 16-6-4 (a) (1)), on the grounds that Reimers’s Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial was violated. For the reasons that follow, we reverse and remand with direction.

The trial court’s weighing of each factor and its balancing of all four factors — its ultimate judgment — are reviewed on appeal only for abuse of discretion. However, where the trial court has clearly erred in some of its findings of fact and/or has…