Aguilar v. Pima County Superior Court

OPINION

HOWARD, Judge.

This special action was taken from the trial court’s denial of petitioner’s motion to dismiss the criminal charges pending against him, based on violations of the speedy trial provisions of Rule 8, Rules of Criminal Procedure, 17 A.R.S. Because we believe that the trial court failed to exercise discretion which it had a duty to exercise, and because the exercise of that discretion may terminate the proceedings against petitioner, we accept jurisdiction and grant relief.

*506Petitioner’s trial was conducted from March 29, 1984 through April 6, 1984, over his continuing…