Gee v. State

It is with trepidation and a sense of deja vu that we reviewed the facts of this speedy trial case. It is unnervingly similar to Brady v. State, 291 Md. 261 (1981), 1 wherein we were brought to task for our apparent confusion of the mechanics of the Barker v. Wingo, 407 U.S. 514 (1972), balancing test, our "failure to note” or place proper "significance” on what was considered pertinent and controlling by the Court of Appeals, i.e., the State’s "particularly disheartening” failure "to coordinate the efforts of its various criminal divisions in attempting to locate a defendant.” It was "[t]his…