STATE v. SWANN

No. 181A86.

370 S.E.2d 533 (1988)

322 N.C. 666

STATE of North Carolina v. John Robert SWANN, III.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

July 28, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lacy H. Thornburg, Atty. Gen. by Philip A. Telfer, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Stephen P. Lindsay, P.A. by Stephen P. Lindsay, for defendant-appellant.


WEBB, Justice.

The defendant first assigns error to the trial court's denial of his motion to dismiss for impermissible pretrial delay. The defendant argues that this delay violated the speedy trial requirement of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, the due process requirements of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, and the North Carolina Speedy Trial Act, N.C.G.S. § 15A-701. The defendant also claims that...

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