KIMBALL, Justice.
In this extradition case, we are called on to determine whether a defendant's incarceration in another state interrupts the two-year prescriptive period provided by La.C.Cr.P. art. 578(2) for prosecution of felony charges in this state. Specifically, we must decide whether the State's failure to bring the defendant to trial within two years from the date of his indictment, when the defendant was incarcerated in Texas at the time of his Louisiana...
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