Court Opinion

ID: 9632906
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 11:27:58.737528+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:08:24.293727
License: Public Domain

THOMAS, Justice,
concurring.
I concur in and choose to offer additional support for the majority opinion in this case. I have no question that in Robinson v. State, Wyo., 627 P.2d 168 (1981), this court stated with clarity the result when a conflict is present between the application of Rule 22 of the Uniform Rules for the District Courts of the State of Wyoming and the standard espoused in Estrada v. State, Wyo., 611 P.2d 850 (1980).
The potential for conflict definitely does not require this Court to expunge Rule 22 of the Uniform Rules for the District Courts. In the application of these standards there is a conflict only when the district court permits a case to go to trial because of compliance with Rule 22 when under the standard of Estrada v. State, supra, there has been a denial of a speedy trial, or in the alternative when the district court refuses to let a case go to trial because of noncompliance with Rule 22 when there has in fact been no denial of a speedy trial under Estrada v. State. Robinson v. State, supra, resolves such problems.
*12Beyond that it is my view that Rule 22 represents a salutary effort by the members of the trial bench in this state to develop a responsible standard designed to assure in practically all instances that a defendant in a criminal cause receives a speedy trial. I support that effort, and I wholeheartedly agree with the majority view that we look to the application of that rule and honor it to the extent it does not conflict with the standard of Estrada v. State, supra.