People v. Barker

Judgment unanimously affirmed. Memorandum: By pleading guilty before County Court decided his pretrial motion to dismiss on constitutional speedy trial grounds, defendant abandoned his constitutional speedy trial challenge (see, People v Callahan, 80 NY2d 273, 281-282; People v Rodriguez, 50 NY2d 553, 557; People v Love, 236 AD2d 488, 489, lv denied 90 NY2d 895). In any event, upon balancing the relevant factors (see, People v Taranovich, 37 NY2d 442, 445), we conclude that defendant’s constitutional speedy trial rights were not violated by the delay resulting almost entirely from defendant’s…