Ex Parte Walker

I concur fully with the main opinion, and I commend Justice Smith for her thorough survey of the pertinent caselaw and her reconciliation and clarification of the legal principles that have emerged from that body of precedent. I write specially simply to note the following:

The petition of Brigitte Yvonne Walker stated as its only ground for certiorari review that the holding of the Court of Criminal Appeals conflicted with prior cases, which Walker asserted had "held that no showing of prejudice is necessary where the [first] three factors of Barker v. Wingo,407 U.S. 514 (1972) are satisfied…