Turner v. State

DAVIS, Justice.

[¥1] Appellant Jeffery Turner entered a conditional guilty plea to a charge of escape from official detention, and thereby reserved the right to appeal the district court's denial of his motion to dismiss. He claimed in that motion that he had been deprived of his right to a speedy trial under the Interstate Agreement on Detainers (IAD), Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 7-15-101 (LexisNexis 2018). Although we depart from the district court's reasoning, we affirm.

ISSUE

[¶2] We restate the sole issue on appeal as follows:

Did the speedy trial provisions of the IAD require that the charge against…