Jones v. Wainwright

GODBOLD, Circuit Judge:

This appeal is from the denial, without an evidentiary hearing, of the ha-beas petition of a Florida state prisoner under a life sentence. The petitioner was denied his right to a speedy trial as guaranteed by the sixth and fourteenth amendments to the United States Constitution. The state concedes, and the Florida state court has found, that petitioner was not promptly tried. Jones v. Florida, 255 So.2d 712 (4 DCA), cert, denied, 260 So.2d 515 (Fla. 1972). The critical issue concerns whether from that denial he suffered prejudice in the form of impairment of his…