Iowa Court of Appeals holds that neither acquiescence in the setting of a trial date past the speedy trial deadline, nor failure to obtain a court-ordered substance-abuse evaluation, nor timely filing of a motion to suppress amounts to the kind of active participation in delay that has led to findings of a waiver of a speedy trial demand or good cause to extend the trial past 90 days of the filing of the Trial Information. Hence, the Defendant’s case had to be dismissed.

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