Court Opinion

ID: 9819656
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 06:29:34.593938+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:38:31.666760
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JUSTICE HUTCHINSON, specially concurring: I agree with the majority’s holding that defendant’s constitutional right to a speedy trial did not accrue until February 2003. However, because the issue of accrual for purposes of establishing the commencement of a defendant’s constitutional speedy-trial right was not before the Belcher court, I am not willing to create an implied rule of law from the Belcher court’s application of the Barker factors. I do not believe that the Belcher court suggested the broad proposition that filing a complaint against a defendant triggers a defendant’s constitutional speedy-trial right. See 356 Ill. App. 3d at 164. I further believe the majority’s rationale and disposition of the accrual issue was sufficient in and of itself to warrant a rejection of defendant’s argument that Belcher should control our outcome.