State v. Packard

The issue on appeal is whether the trial court correctly granted defendant-appellee’s motion to discharge on the basis of his constitutional right to a speedy trial pursuant to Section 10, Article I of the Ohio Constitution and also the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, as made applicable to the states by the Fourteenth Amendment. The preceding constitutional sections guarantee to a defendant the right to a speedy trial. Klopfer v. North Carolina (1967), 386 U.S. 213; Smith v. Hooey (1969), 393 U.S. 374; Dickey v. Florida (1970), 398 U.S. 30. For the reasons set forth below,…