Court Opinion

ID: 9541585
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 16:26:54.666643+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:03:51.976279
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MACY, Justice,
specially concurring.
I agree with the result that the majority opinion reaches, but I offer this specially concurring opinion to express my continued disagreement with the majority’s use of a constitutional balancing test to analyze the speedy trial issue. It is my opinion that this Court should limit its speedy trial discussions to an analysis under W.R.Cr.P. 48 which was intended to move us past the laborious and subjective constitutional analysis.
My views on this matter are fully explained in Hall v. State, 911 P.2d 1364, 1371-72 (Wyo.1996) (Macy, J., specially concurring), and in Yung v. State, 906 P.2d 1028, 1037-39 (Wyo.1995) (Macy, J., specially concurring), and I refer to them for a more in-depth discussion on this issue.