A Westmoreland County Judge has ruled in favor of a Ligonier man who claimed his rights to a speedy trial were violated.
The Trib reports that Common Pleas Court Judge Tim Krieger wrote in the case of 38-year-old Jesse Springer that the prosecution was among a continuing trend of incidents in which the District Attorney’s Office failed to monitor its calendar to ensure cases are scheduled for trial within a year and his case was dismissed. According to court records, Springer was detained following a traffic stop May 21, 2021, in Latrobe. Police suspected he was drunk and subsequently charged him with driving under the influence of alcohol. By the following August, prosecutors realized the case had not yet been scheduled for a nonjury trial.
The case should have gone to trial by June of 2022.
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