People v. Drayton

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Lawrence Tonetti, J.), rendered June 23, 1994, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of manslaughter in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 10 to 20 years, unanimously affirmed.

The trial court properly denied defendant’s constitutional speedy trial motion. The record, to the extent provided by defendant, reveals that the delay was not extraordinarily lengthy, was primarily due to the People’s efforts to locate eyewitnesses, that the charges were serious and that defendant was not prejudiced by the…