State v. Bailey

CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Judge,

Specially Assigned.

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In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy ... trial....

U.S. Const. amend. VI. Klopfer v. North Carolina, 386 U.S. 213, 223, 87 S.Ct. 988, 993, 18 L.Ed.2d 1 (1967), established that the right to a speedy trial is “fundamental,” and is “imposed by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment on the States.” Barker v. Wingo, 407 U.S. 514, 515, 92 S.Ct. 2182, 2184, 33 L.Ed.2d 101 (1972). The right to a speedy trial is to be distinguished “from any of the other rights enshrined in the [United States]…