People v. Coker

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Posner, J.), rendered January 3, 1984, convicting him of robbery in the first degree and robbery in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant’s motion pursuant to CPL 30.30 (1) (a) was properly denied. As the defendant correctly contends, the hearing court improperly excluded from the time chargeable to the People a period of 13 days that a police detective, who did not testify at the trial, was on vacation (see, People v Jones, 68 NY2d 717).…