Peterkin v. State

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• Alaska Crim. Rules 45, which requires discharge if the case is not tried within 120 days of arrest, information, etc.
• state cannot rely on an absent witness as justification for delaying defendant’s trial beyond the 120 day limit unless a motion for continuance is made
• “Reliance on Rule 53 will assure that no grave inequities are perpetrated where non-compliance with one of the enumerated exclusions found in subsections (1) through (6) of 45(d) is justifiable or excusable.”
• no criminal case should ever be continued except to a day certain

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).