Legal Opinion
State v. Trompeter
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided October 23, 1996No. 95-1780PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARRIS, Justice.
The State waited nearly three years, waited deliberately for the defendant’s eighteenth birthday, to file this felony case. The district court correctly dismissed it because the long delay violated defendant’s due process rights.
In July 1993 defendant Shane Trompeter, who was then sixteen years old, was found to have committed a third-degree sexual assault. In September 1993 he was adjudicated delinquent and was eventually placed in a Sioux City facility for delinquent youth.
Trompeter was released from the facility on June 26, 1995, due to his upcoming eighteenth birthday and…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- United States v. MarionSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Hoffa v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- United States v. LovascoSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Smith v. HooeySupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- State v. JohnsonSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1969
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3Cited by16 opinions
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