State of Iowa v. Shawn Michael Elder Jr.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that while the rule does not expressly contemplate it, “because the right to a speedy trial is personal to a defendant a defendant may waive the right to trial within one year”
• reversing district court’s denial of motion to dismiss when “last continuance sought by Elder continued trial to September 24, 2013, with six weeks remaining available thereafter in which to bring the case to trial”
• “[B]ecause the right to a speedy trial is personal to a defendant a defendant may waive the right to trial within one year.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).