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CHANCE v. STATE

No. 1114, September Term, 1979.

45 Md. App. 521 (1980)

414 A.2d 535

CARLA SUE CHANCE v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided May 9, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patricia A. Logan, Assistant Public Defender, with whom was Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, on the brief, for appellant.

Alexander L. Cummings, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Stephen H. Sachs, Attorney General, William A. Swisher, State's Attorney for Baltimore City, and Steven Sacks, Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore City, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MOORE, LOWE and COUCH, JJ.

LOWE, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

Carla Sue Chance was convicted in the Criminal Court of Baltimore of murdering her erstwhile paramour but the case was not tried for twenty-one months and four days from her arrest. She has raised six assignments of error, but because we are convinced that she was denied a speedy trial, it will be unnecessary to address the other five. We have analyzed the delay pursuant to the admonition of Barker v. Wingo,

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