Sykes v. Superior Court

Opinion

WRIGHT, C. J.

Petitioner seeks a writ of mandate to compel the respondent court to dismiss a felony information pending against him or, in the alternative, a writ of prohibition staying the criminal proceedings. Petitioner contends that he was denied his constitutional right to a speedy trial when, after a period of 228 days following an order in collateral proceedings directing the superior court to set aside the judgment of conviction and the guilty plea on which it was based and requiring that he be re-arraigned for plea in the criminal proceedings, the People had not proceeded. At…