State v. Rome

WOODARD, Judge.

This criminal appeal is brought by the State of Louisiana after the trial court granted the defendant’s Motion to Quash and dismissed the prosecution for failure to timely commence trial. La.C.Cr.P. art. 581, and art. 912 B(2). On appeal, the state has assigned five errors concerning the manner in which the trial court calculated periods of suspension and interruption of the time limits to commence trial.

FACTS

The defendant is Joseph Anthony Rome, an attorney from New Orleans, who was indicted on October 5, 1989 by a West Feliciana Parish grand jury for 22 counts of theft,…