State v. Jones

1 Citing case

  1. State v. Flowers

    198 Conn. 542 (Conn. 1986)   Cited 19 times
    Concluding that demonstrated docket congestion was the operative cause for delaying the defendant's trial, but rejecting defendant's claim that the delay was caused by the prosecution's improper control of the cases on the trial list and by the court's failure to afford the defendant a speedy trial when it was in its power to do so.

    We conclude that the defendant has not made sufficient showing that Wiley was unavailable to testify, and that, in any event, Wiley's absence from trial was due more to the fortuity of his job assignments than to pretrial delay. State v. Johnson, supra, 546; State v. Troynack, 174 Conn. 89, 94, 384 A.2d 326 (1977); cf. State v. Jones, 46 Or. App. 479, 611 P.2d 1200, 1202 (1980). Moreover, even assuming an adequate showing of Wiley's unavailability, the substance of his purported testimony would not have materially assisted the defendant's case.