48 Md. App. 115 - Goins v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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1. “"It may well be in this case that Article 27, Section 591, as implemented by Rule 746, and as interpreted by State v. Hicks, has been violated. If that be the case, it is clear that the appellant has been the violator and the State, his innocent victim. It is but to state the obvious to hold that the appellant will not be permitted to profit from his wrongdoing or, in the words of Hicks, 'to gain advantage from a violation of the rule when he was a party [in this case the only party] to that violation.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Goins v. State

2. “that it was his [the defendant’s] own dereliction in allowing 72 days to lapse before filing his plea of not guilty by reason of insanity that was the effective cause for not meeting the projected January 1980 trial date that was well within the 180-day guideline.” 48 Md.App. at 116 . Quoting from State v. Hicks, supra, 285 Md. at 310 , the intermediate appellate court went on to say that it would”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Goins v. State

3. “does not question the fact that the necessary wait for [the] report constituted 'extraordinary cause’ for delaying the trial within the contemplation of Rule 746,” Id. at 118. After setting forth the defendant’s arguments that no party made a motion to extend the trial date, and that the county administrative judge”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Goins v. State