Stanley Carter, Appellant v. State of Arkansas, Appellee

Summary

The court affirmed Carter's rape convictions, holding that no speedy-trial violation occurred because the sixty-seven-day continuance requested by defense counsel was excludable as a defense-requested continuance and for good cause. Although the court concluded that the trial court's docket-congestion notation did not satisfy the rule's particularity requirement, the properly excluded defense-related delay placed the trial within the one-year speedy-trial period. Justice Goodson, concurring in part and dissenting in part, agreed that Carter received a speedy trial but would have treated the docket-congestion period as excludable and rejected exclusion of the counsel-illness period for lack of a contemporaneous record.