People v. Douglas

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Lewis, J.), rendered May 4, 2005, convicting him of manslaughter in the first degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

By pleading guilty, the defendant forfeited his right to claim that he was deprived of a speedy trial under CPL 30.30 (see People v O’Brien, 56 NY2d 1009, 1010 [1982]). He could not validly reserve his right to obtain appellate review of his statutory speedy trial claim merely by…