Hai Nguyen v. Attorney General New Jersey

OPINION

GREENBERG, Circuit Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

This matter comes on before this Court on an appeal from an order entered in the District Court on November 19, 2015, denying Hai Kim Nguyen’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus. See Nguyen v. Hoffman, Civ. Act. No. 13-6845, 2015 WL 7306425, 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 156677 (D.N.J. Nov. 19, 2015). Though the order denied Nguyen’s petition, it granted him a certificate of appealability on one of the grounds that he asserted in his petition— namely, that his trial counsel had been ineffective for failing to raise a Sixth Amendment speedy trial claim.…