Manix v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a speedy trial had not been denied due to a backlog in the crime lab and the failure of the defendant to provide an address for an exculpatory witness
• testimony by officer that defendant voluntarily confessed was enough to affirm trial court's overruling of defendant's motion to suppress the confession
• factor weighed only slightly against the State where delays resulted from crime lab backlog and replacement of the prosecutor
• delay caused by backlog in state crime lab does not prejudice State
• “A delay caused by the withdrawal of the defendant’s attorney which entails allowing the new attorney a reasonable time to become familiar with the case and prepare for trial cannot be weighed against the State.”
• delay caused by backlog in state crime lab does not prejudice State

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).