On its own motion, a trial court can continue a criminal trial beyond the normal 180-day limit because of other cases awaiting trial. The district court did so here because of a pending trial of a civil case. Because the statute allowing such continuances does not specifically limit them to only for pending criminal cases, we will not read that term into the statute. Had the legislature wanted to limit the...
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