People v. Alvarado

—Judgment, *319Supreme Court, New York County (Marcy Kahn, J.), rendered January 15, 1999, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 5 to 10 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s speedy trial motion was properly denied. The issue turns on the court’s exclusion of a 27-day post-readiness adjournment beginning on June 25, 1998. The minutes of that adjournment reveal defense counsel’s immediate announcement that he had just been assigned, followed by an unrecorded bench…