Nordwall v. State
Annotate this CaseIn 1994, Appellant was charged with four counts of first-degree sexual assault and one count of aggravated assault and battery. Appellant entered a plea pursuant to a plea agreement under which the State dismissed all but one of the counts, which it reduced. Appellant pled no contest to the remaining reduced count. In 2013, Appellant was charged with five counts of first-degree rape and three counts of first-degree sexual assault. After a jury trial, Appellant was convicted of four counts of first-degree rape and three counts of first-degree sexual assault. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding (1) the trial court did not violate Appellant’s constitutional right to a speedy trial, as the recent charges concerned crimes committed against victims other than the victim at issue in the 1994 charges; and (2) the prosecution did not violate the 1994 plea agreement by bringing charges against Appellant for those crimes in the present case.
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