HARRIS, Justice.
The State waited nearly three years, waited deliberately for the defendant's eighteenth birthday, to file this felony case. The district court correctly dismissed it because the long delay violated defendant's due process rights.
In July 1993 defendant Shane Trompeter, who was then sixteen years old, was found to have committed a third-degree sexual assault. In September 1993 he was adjudicated delinquent and was eventually placed in a Sioux...
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