State v. Stein

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Armstrong, J.

In 1989, a jury acquitted John Kenneth Stein of first degree murder charges and convicted him of three attempted murders and burglary. We dismissed his appeal for failure to perfect the record, but in 1996, the federal district court reinstated the appeal in part because officers of the court contributed to this failure. We then reversed Stein’s convictions and remanded for a new trial; the Supreme Court affirmed our decision. Before the second trial, the trial court conducted an extensive hearing on what remedy Stein was entitled to for the State-caused delay. The trial court…