EAGLES, Judge.
Defendant assigns as error the trial court's denial of his motion to dismiss pursuant to North Carolina's Speedy Trial Act, G.S. 15A-701 et seq. For the reasons stated below, we agree that there was error.
We note that the Speedy Trial Act, G.S. 15A-701 et seq. creates new rights, supplemental to the speedy trial rights existing under the Sixth Amendment of the
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