People v. Jackson

Judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County (Jerome Hornblass, J., at plea and sentence; James Leff, J., at speedy trial [CPL 30.20] motion), rendered June 12, 1989, convicting defendant on his plea of guilty of murder in the second degree, and sentencing him to an indeterminate term of 20 years to life, to be served concurrently with a sentence imposed in the Federal court, unanimously affirmed.

The sole argument raised on appeal is that the defendant, who fled to the Virgin Islands shortly after the commission of the crime for which he stands convicted, was denied his constitutional right…