Burrus v. Gonzalez
Burrus v. Gonzalez
Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
James Burrus appeals the denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas petition.
In order for Burrus to prevail on his ineffective assistance of counsel claim, Strickland v. Washington requires that he
Had Burrus’s counsel filed and prevailed upon a motion to dismiss, the trial court would have been required to “dismiss the prosecution with or without prejudice.” Ariz. R.Crim. P. 8.6 (emphasis added). “Generally a trial court has discretion under Rule 8.6 to determine whether a dismissal is with or without prejudice,” and that determination is made on a case-by-case basis. Humble v. Superior Court, 179 Ariz. 409, 880 P.2d 629, 635 (Ct.App. 1994); see also State v. Mendoza, 170 Ariz. 184, 823 P.2d 51, 59 (1992). Without any evidence of actual prejudice to Burrus, any presumed prejudice arising from the alleged violation (64 days at the most) of Arizona’s speedy trial rule was insufficient to have warranted dismissal with prejudice. Snow v. Superior Court, 183 Ariz. 320, 903 P.2d 628, 634 (Ct.App. 1995). Thus, the district court properly denied Burrus’s petition.
AFFIRMED
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. This is the second time Burrus’s petition has made it to the Ninth Circuit. Burrus originally filed a petition for relief in the Arizona courts, which was eventually denied as untimely. He then filed a petition in federal court. The district court denied the petition on procedural default grounds. We vacated and remanded that ruling, holding that, because the state had given Burrus a time extension within which he filed his petition, his petition would not be barred by procedural default. Burrus v. Gonzalez, 172 F.3d 55, 1999 WL 109929 (9th Cir. 1999) (unpublished memorandum disposition). Burrus now appeals from the remanded case.
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