Court Opinion

ID: 9531086
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 04:07:21.070413+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:28:20.514670
License: Public Domain

HOWE, Associate Chief Justice,
concurring:
I concur, with one reservation. The record is not clear whether the Box Elder County prosecutor ever offered to set a trial date for petitioner within 180 days after the prosecutor was made aware of petitioner’s undelivered request by his filing the two motions to dismiss. Those *947filings arguably gave the prosecutor de facto notice of petitioner’s earlier written request for trial and may have put the burden on the prosecutor to honor the request by then offering to schedule a trial within 180 days. The lead opinion seems to state that petitioner did not then want a trial setting but stood firm on his contention that he could not be tried because the 180 days had already elapsed.
This issue should be left open so that petitioner can pursue it if he desires and make an adequate record as to what offers, if any, the prosecutor made to set a trial date and petitioner’s responses to those offers.
STEWART and ZIMMERMAN, JJ„ concur in the concurring opinion of Associate Chief Justice HOWE.