Wilson v. State

MCFADDEN, Judge.

Somora Wilson appeals from the trial court’s denial of his plea in bar on speedy trial grounds. We pretermit the threshold question, whether the relevant delay, eleven months and ten days, was long enough to be presumptively prejudicial and to trigger an inquiry under Barker v. Wingo, 407 U. S. 514 (92 SC 2182, 33 LE2d 101) (1972). See State v. Pickett, 288 Ga. 674, 675 (2) (a) (706 SE2d 561) (2011) (“A delay approaching one year is generally deemed to be presumptively prejudicial.”). We hold, as did the trial court, that Wilson has not met his burden under the four-factor…