Ryan Brown v. Kenneth Romanowski

OPINION

SUHRHEINRICH, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner-Appellant Ryan Brown, a state prisoner, appeals the district court’s denial of his petition for writ of habeas corpus based on violations of his speedy-trial rights and related claims of ineffective assistance of counsel. 1 We affirm.

I

Brown’s convictions resulted from controlled buys of cocaine initiated and made by an informant on September 16, November 8, and December 7, 2005, and on January 10, 2006. See People v. Brown, No. 284568, 2009 WL 1883978, at *1 (Mich. Ct. App. June 30, 2009) (per curiam). The informant, Jawad Mirza, called Detective…