McCarty v. Heard

Memorandum and Order

SINGLETON, District Judge.

Aubrey Langston McCarty, presently confined in the Texas Department of Corrections and represented herein by counsel appointed by this court, seeks habeas corpus relief on the ground that his state conviction is illegal in that he was denied a speedy trial. For the reasons that follow, this court concludes that petitioner was denied his sixth amendment right to a speedy trial, grants the petition, and following the dictates of Strunk v. United States, 412 U.S. 434, 93 S.Ct. 2260, 37 L.Ed.2d 56 (1973), orders that petitioner be released from…