Andrew Flowers v. Michael Fair

Andrew Flowers appeals from the denial by the district court of his petition for habeas corpus brought pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. He asserts that his constitutional rights to a speedy trial and to effective assistance of counsel were violated in his 1976 trial in a Massachusetts superior court for the armed robbery of a Radio Shack store. We affirm the district court’s decision.

While it is true that 19 months passed between Flowers’s indictment and his final trial, the district court found, based upon a careful review of the record, that this was not caused by deliberate delay on the part…