Duggins v. State

This case comes before us in the unusual posture in which both the defendant, Michael Duggins, and the State petition for mandamus to require the trial court to rule on Duggins’s pending motions to suppress. We grant Duggins’s petition.

Duggins was charged in November 2012 with aggravated assault and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. He filed two separate motions to suppress physical evidence. The trial court conducted an evidentiary hearing on the motions on June 23, 2014. During the hearing, Dug-gins’s counsel advised the court that Dug-gins has been incarcerated for over 600…