Legal Opinion
Butler v. Mitchell
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 9, 2016No. 15-1739PPublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SOUTER, Associate Justice.
Reginald Butler appeals the denial of a petition for habeas corpus in which he claims that his Sixth Amendment rights to a speedy trial and effective assistance of counsel were violated in the course of a Massachusetts state prosecution. We affirm.
I
In 1991, a Massachusetts state district court issued an arrest warrant supported by a criminal complaint charging Butler with rape. In 1993, while incarcerated on unrelated charges, Butler signed a standard form requesting a speedy trial on the 1991 complaint, but the case lay dormant.
After further proceedings immaterial…
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