State v. Rentas

Citations

• 191 N.E.3d 547
• 2022 Ohio 2412

Syllabus

Speedy trial constitutional Barker factors prejudice findings. - Trial court did not err in granting defendant's motion to dismiss. After weighing the Barker factors, considering the entire record, and affording deference to the trial court's findings of fact, the state violated Rentas's constitutional right to a speedy trial. An almost forty-year delay is presumptively prejudicial the delay was primarily caused by the state failing to change the known incorrect information contained on the warrant the defendant asserted his right in a timely manner and the defendant demonstrated sufficient prejudice where missing or destroyed evidence, and the death of at least one witness, impaired his defense.