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JOHNSON v. COM.

Record No. 952053.

478 S.E.2d 539 (1996)

252 Va. 425

Steven Jerome JOHNSON v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

November 1, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven D. Benjamin (Betty Layne DesPortes; Steven D. Benjamin & Associates, on briefs), Richmond, for appellant.

Eugene Murphy, Assistant Attorney General (James S. Gilmore, III, Attorney General, on brief), for appellee.

Present: CARRICO, C.J., and COMPTON, STEPHENSON, LACY, HASSELL and KEENAN, JJ. and POFF, Senior Justice.

RICHARD H. POFF, Senior Justice.

The principal issue framed on this appeal is whether the accused was denied his statutory right to a speedy trial upon remand following reversal by the Court of Appeals on an unrelated issue. Because the speedy trial statute1 defines a breach of the right in terms of the expiration of stated time periods, we will summarize the relevant chronology.

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