People v. Williams
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Nardelli, J.
The genesis of this proceeding is a notorious incident involving a brutal rape and robbery in 1973 in Manhattan. The issues presented are whether defendant’s statutory and constitutional rights to a speedy trial were violated, and also whether the trial court should have conducted an inquiry of the jurors to determine whether they had read an article in a prominent newspaper about the trial on the day it commenced.
Defendant has a history of being arrested under different names. For instance, on August 12, 1972, he was arrested for possession of burglar’s tools…
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