State v. Jones

COPELAND, Justice.

In the defendant’s first assignment of error he contends that his statutory right to a speedy trial, under N.C. Gen. Stat. § 15A-701, has been violated. Specifically defendant argues that Superior Court judges holding court in Rowan County committed reversible error in granting five successive motions by the State for continuance, pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 15A-701(b)(7), and in excluding the time covered by the continuances from the Speedy Trial Act’s mandatory 120 day period. Defendant contends the judges who granted the continuances erroneously failed to make findings…