Melanie Rock v. Robert G. Matheny, Sheriff and Treasurer of Harrison County, West Virginia

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• holding that personnel and administrative issues are not legitimate reasons justifying otherwise unreasonable post-trial delay
• holding that “personnel and administrative issues . . . are not legitimate reasons justifying otherwise unreasonable post-trial delay”
• holding that housebreaking is a lesser in- cluded offense of burglary because the specification of the burglary offense “allege[d] the elements of both offenses”
• holding that although the elements of housebreaking are not necessarily included in the elements of burglary, as charged the specification included all the elements of housebreaking and burglary
• holding that an offense may be an LIO of a greater offense even if there are ways of committing the lesser offense whereby it would not be an LIO of the greater
• holding that an offense may be an LIO of a greater offense even if there are ways of committing the lesser offense whereby it would not be an LIO of the greater

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