People v. Saunders

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Harold Rothwax, J.), rendered December 2, 1992, convicting defendant, after jury trial, of 14 counts of kidnapping in the second degree, and sentenc*174ing him to 14 concurrent terms of IVi to 22 years, unanimously affirmed.

The time period from May 3, 1988 through April 13, 1992, during which defendant was confined in a psychiatric facility and proceedings relating to determination of his competency were pending, was not chargeable to the People for speedy trial purposes (CPL 30.30 [4] [a]). Following determination of defendant’s fitness to proceed on…