Booker v. State

Summary

The Court affirmed Booker’s convictions and forty-four-year sentence, rejecting his claims of speedy-trial violation, untimely disclosure of expert-data materials, insufficient evidence, improper expert testimony, excessive sentencing, and prosecutorial misconduct. The Court held that the approximately sixteen-month delay was not presumptively prejudicial in this complex case, that the requested materials were disclosed before trial without resulting prejudice, and that circumstantial evidence supported the convictions. It also held that the expert testimony satisfied the governing admissibility requirements and that the unpreserved misconduct claims did not establish plain error.