People v. Cephas
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
—Appeal by the *904defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Goldstein, J.), rendered May 20, 1991, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant moved pursuant to CPL 30.30 (4) (c) to dismiss the charges against him on the ground that the People failed to bring the case to trial within 180 days. He contends thát since he failed to appear in the court for the first day of trial, necessitating the issuance of a bench warrant, the prosecution had the…
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