People v. Owens

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Goldberg, J.), rendered March 3, 1992, convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fourth degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial, after a hearing (Goldberg, J.), of the defendant’s motion to dismiss the indictment on the ground that he has been deprived of his right to a speedy trial, and the denial, after a hearing (Curci, J.), of *550that branch of the defendant’s…