Court Opinion

ID: 9782310
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-30 18:19:04.911537+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:34:55.350562
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GOLDEN, Justice,
dissenting.
[136] I respectfully dissent. The 180-day speedy trial period under the Interstate Agreement on Detainers (IAD) was to expire on May 26, 2001. Nebraska released Odhinn from imprisonment, however, on May 15, 2001, before expiration of the 180-day speedy trial period. The "majority rule," acknowledged by Odhinn's appellate defense counsel, holds that if the sending state (Nebraska) releases the accused (Odhinn) within the 180-day period, then the accused (Odhinn) is, under the plain language of the IAD, no longer a "prisoner" to whom the IAD provisions apply; therefore, the IAD's speedy trial provision no longer applied to the released Odhinn. See, e.g., United States v. Roy, 830 F.2d 628, 633 (7th Cir.1987); Cunningham v. State, 341 Ark. 99, 14 S.W.3d 869, 871-72 (2000); Womble v. State, 957 S.W.2d 839, 843-44 (Tenn.Cr.App.1997); State v. Holley, 82 Md.App. 381, 571 A.2d 892, 894-96 (App.1990); State v. Julian, 244 Kan. 101, 765 P.2d 1104, 1106-08 (1988); and State v. Tarango, 105 N.M. 592, 734 P.2d 1275, 1278 (App.1987).
[4137] Addressing Odhinn's garden-variety constitutional speedy trial claim, I agree with the State's position that Odhinn failed to raise that issue below, and it is deemed waived. Even on the merits, the claim fails because Wyoming received Odhinn on December 28, 2001, and he entered a conditional guilty plea on June 4, 2002. That period between those two dates fails to trigger a speedy trial claim analysis.