People v. Johnson

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Budd G. Goodman, J., on speedy trial motion; Rena K. Uviller, J., at jury trial and sentence), rendered June 19, 2002, convicting defendant of assault in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to concurrent terms of five years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant’s speedy trial motion. Since each of the adjournments at issue on appeal occurred after the People declared their readiness, the periods of delay would be chargeable to the People…