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FILED NOT FOR PUBLICATION AUG 21 2013 MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT WILLIAM RENNIE, III, No. 12-15156 Petitioner - Appellant, D.C. No. 2:09-cv-00698-WBS- TJB v. MICHAEL MARTIN, MEMORANDUM* Respondent - Appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California William B. Shubb, Senior District Judge, Presiding Argued and Submitted August 15, 2013 San Francisco, California Before: REINHARDT, GRABER, and HURWITZ, Circuit Judges. William Rennie, III, appeals the district court’s denial of his
28 U.S.C. § 2254habeas petition. We have jurisdiction under
28 U.S.C. § 1291and affirm. * This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3. 1. The decision of the California Superior Court, rejecting Rennie’s speedy trial claim, was not unreasonable. The state court applied settled federal law, recognizing that the lengthy delay here is “presumptively prejudicial,” Doggett v. United States,
505 U.S. 647, 651-52 (1992), that the state “bears the burden of explaining pretrial delays,” McNeely v. Blanas,
336 F.3d 822, 827 (9th Cir. 2003), and that our tolerance of the delays attributable to state “negligence varies inversely with its protractedness,” Doggett,
505 U.S. at 657. But the California court also appropriately recognized that Rennie’s belated failure to invoke his speedy trial rights formally weighs heavily against him. See Barker v. Wingo,
407 U.S. 514, 531-32 (1972). In light of that failure and the absence of any evidence of actual prejudice, we cannot find the superior court’s decision unreasonable. 2. Rennie’s ineffective assistance of counsel argument also fails. The superior court reasonably concluded that Rennie did not demonstrate “a reasonable probability that, but for counsel’s unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.” Strickland v. Washington,
466 U.S. 668, 694 (1984). AFFIRMED.
Document Info
Docket Number: 12-15156
Judges: Reinhardt, Graber, Hurwitz
Filed Date: 8/21/2013
Precedential Status: Non-Precedential
Modified Date: 10/19/2024