GODBOLD, Circuit Judge:
This appeal is from the denial, without an evidentiary hearing, of the habeas petition of a Florida state prisoner under a life sentence. The petitioner was denied his right to a speedy trial as guaranteed by the sixth and fourteenth amendments to the United States Constitution. The state concedes, and the Florida state court has found, that petitioner was not promptly tried. Jones v. Florida,
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