[CondorFlight]

"The Pennsylvania Constitution is over 200 years old and in it, "speedy" is defined as within one year."

Doesn't apply in NC. There one man was kept in jail awaiting trial for FOUR YEARS, and the NC courts said it was not a denial of speedy trial.

In California, if the state does not begin trial within 60 days of indictment, it must drop the charges (unless the defense requests an extension).

The 6th amendment does not apply in NC.

[Ditto]

Regardless of past practice (and abuses) in North Carolina, the trial date has been set to be within a year of the charges being brought which is "reasonable" time line according to practices in other states. Regardless of how much it sucks in this particular case, it is not a violation of the 4th amendment guarantee of a speedy trial.