People v. White

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Sullivan County (Vogt, J.), rendered September 30, 1993, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crimes of sodomy in the first degree (16 counts), sodomy in the second degree (16 counts) and sexual abuse in the first degree (six counts).

*620For the reasons that follow, we conclude that defendant was not denied effective assistance of counsel due to his attorney’s failure to move to dismiss the indictment on speedy trial grounds. To briefly recapitulate the facts,* defendant was indicted on June 5, 1991 and thereafter, on September 6, 1991, made an…