Williams v. State

Summary

The court affirmed Williams’s convictions for murder and related offenses. It held that the evidence was sufficient for the jury to reject self-defense, that Williams could not establish error or prejudice concerning an accomplice’s unadmitted guilty plea because the accomplice never testified and no proffer was made, and that the 25-month delay before retrial did not violate his constitutional speedy-trial right. The court reviewed the speedy-trial determination for abuse of discretion and upheld the trial court’s balancing of the relevant factors.