PEOPLE v. MIRENDA

No. D053261.

174 Cal.App.4th 1313 (2009)

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. GREGORY LOUIS MIRENDA, Defendant and Respondent.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division One.

June 16, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bonnie M. Dumanis, District Attorney, Laura E. Tanney, Craig E. Fisher and James E. Atkins, Deputy District Attorneys, for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Libby A. Ryan, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Respondent.


OPINION

HUFFMAN, Acting P. J.

We are presented with a case where 26 years passed between the time the criminal charges were filed and the time when the prosecution actually started. The extraordinary delay in this case is made more remarkable because defendant was actually arrested on the criminal complaint in 1982 and agreed to waive extradition. It was the prosecution that declined to return defendant for trial. Defendant was then...

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