People v. Williams

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Felice Shea, J., at speedy trial motion; Richard Carruthers, J., at jury trial and sentence), rendered September 14, 1993, convicting defendant of rape in the first degree and sodomy in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent felony offender, to concurrent terms of 25 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s speedy trial motion was properly denied. Defendant expressly consented to the adjournments between May 15, 1992 and September 11, 1992, which were necessitated by his request that the People perform DNA testing, and there is…