Opinion ID: 165290
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Heading: Without a Particularized Showing of Prejudice

Text: 29 In cases of extreme delay, criminal defendants need not present specific evidence of prejudice. Instead, they may rely on the presumption of prejudice created by the delay. Doggett, 505 U.S. at 655, 112 S.Ct. 2686. Here, Mr. Jackson argues that the state's culpability for, and the length of, the four and one-third-year delay places this case within the ambit of the Doggett rule. We disagree. 30 In Doggett, the Court held that a delay of eight and one-half years, of which the government was responsible for approximately six years, relieved the defendant of the need to make a particularized showing of prejudice. Id. at 657, 112 S.Ct. 2686. The Court held that [w]hen the Government's negligence thus causes delay six times as long as that generally sufficient to trigger judicial review [i.e., six years], and when the presumption of prejudice, albeit unspecified, is neither extenuated as by the defendant's acquiescence, nor persuasively rebutted, the defendant is entitled to relief. Id. at 658, 112 S.Ct. 2686. Here, because the delay is less than six years, clearly established Supreme Court law does not require application of the Doggett rule. 4