Court Opinion

ID: 9673282
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 04:09:36.406643+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:21.275751
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WOLLMAN, Justice
(concurring in part, dissenting in part).
Although it is a fact that defendant’s original attorney made a request in January of 1973 that the case be set for trial, it is also a fact that because of the trial judge’s schedule the earliest date available for trial would have been in late February of 1973. Defendant obtained new counsel on February 27, 1973. To say that there may have been an unreasonable delay in setting the case for trial during the period from January of 1973 to October of 1973, one must assume that defendant and his new counsel were prepared for and desirous of trial during that time, an assumption that the record belies. I find nothing in the record to indicate that defendant’s new counsel made any request whatsoever that the case be set for trial. Indeed, the record is clear that counsel repeatedly requested continuances and that it was only through the persistent efforts of the state’s attorney that the case was finally brought to trial.
I concur in the majority opinion insofar as it disposes of the other issues raised by the appeal.
I would affirm the judgment.
I am authorized to state that Justice COLER joins in this concurrence in part and dissent in part.