STATE EX REL. McCOURT v. Alsop

In this original jurisdiction matter, the petitioner, Keith O’Dell McCourt, asks this Court to enter an order prohibiting the Circuit Court of Webster County, West Virginia, from conducting further proceedings in the underlying case wherein he was indicted for sexual assault in the second degree. The petitioner contends that the Circuit Court should have dismissed the indictment and discharged him from further prosecution because the State violated his constitutional right to a speedy trial.1 Specifically, the petitioner asserts that the State took no action in the case between his indictment…