People v. Phillips

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Warren County (Moynihan, Jr., J.), rendered December 2, 1998, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crime of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree.

On appeal from his conviction after a jury trial, defendant asserts that County Court erred in allowing the admission of several statements he made to police following his arrest and that the indictment should have been dismissed on speedy trial grounds. We disagree with both contentions.

As defendant’s challenge to the admissibility of statements he made during custodial…