David A. Maples v. Jimmy Stegall, Warden

OPINION

GWIN, District Judge.

This case comes before us on a second appeal, after we had earlier remanded the case to the district court to address a single issue: whether, as part of Petitioner David Maples’s ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim, his Sixth Amendment speedy trial claim had merit. In his initial habeas petition, Petitioner claimed a violation of his right to effective assistance of counsel. He complained that his trial counsel provided ineffective assistance by advising him that his guilty plea reserved his speedy trial claim for appeal, when in reality it did not. Maples…