NEWMAN v. STATE

No. PD-0040-10.

331 S.W.3d 447 (2011)

John Landon NEWMAN, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

February 9, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas M. Durham , Houston, for John Landon Newman.

Alan Curry , Asst. Dist. Atty., Jeffrey L. Van Horn , State's Attorney, for State.


OPINION

HERVEY, J., delivered the opinion of the Court in which KELLER, P.J., MEYERS, WOMACK, JOHNSON, KEASLER and COCHRAN, JJ., joined.

Based on federal constitutional speedy-trial grounds, appellant filed an unsworn motion to dismiss his intoxication-assault case. Appellant claimed in this unsworn motion that his Sixth Amendment federal constitutional right to a speedy trial had been violated because of an approximately eight-year delay since the...

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