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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Boggs finds that the trial court properly convicted defendant of murder, burglary, kidnapping, child cruelty and firearm offenses. The trial court correctly rejected defendant's speedy trial claim because defendant was more to blame for the delay than the state and was not prejudiced by the delay. There was a period of one year and seven months between the order granting defendant a new trial and the start of his fourth trial. Defendant claimed the delay should be measured from his initial arrest to the start of the fourth trial--a time period of about 27 years--in light of the Brady violations by the state in his previous trials. Defendant entered a consent order and thereby waived his argument that periods before the order should be included in the length of the delay. The trial court correctly excluded evidence of alleged police and prosecutorial bias against defendant. Affirmed.