People v. Sandoval

The State appeals orders in which all of the charges pending in two cases against the defendant, Jose J. Sandoval, were dismissed for the failure to bring him to trial within 160 days under the speedy trial statute, section 103 — 5(b) of the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 (725 ILCS 5/103 — 5(b) (West 2004)). Sandoval filed a single speedy trial demand, identifying the charges to which the demand was meant to apply as “Du Page DUI,” but not providing the docket numbers of the cases involving those charges. We determine that Sandoval’s speedy trial demand was sufficient under section 3 —…