GIBSON, Justice.
The issue herein is whether the trial court improperly coerced the State to proceed with its prosecution of defendant by threatening to impose jury costs upon the state's attorney's office or the Winooski Police Department, or both, if the State dismissed the case. We conclude that the judgment of guilty should be affirmed.
Defendant was given a speeding ticket on January 18, 1984, and he elected to have a trial by jury. A jury was drawn on...
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