Stanley Carter, Appellant v. State of Arkansas, Appellee

Summary

The court affirmed Carter’s rape convictions, holding that the speedy-trial period was properly extended by the sixty-seven-day continuance requested because of defense counsel’s family illness, even though the docket-congestion continuance did not satisfy the rule’s contemporaneous-particularity requirement. Excluding the counsel-related delay placed the trial within the required one-year period. Justice Courtney Hudson Goodson, concurring in part and dissenting in part, agreed that Carter received a speedy trial but would also have excluded the docket-congestion period and would not have excluded the counsel-illness period absent a contemporaneous record.