People v. Hilton

Judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County (Alvin Schlesinger, J., at trial and sentence; George Roberts, J., at speedy trial hearing), rendered on September 18, 1985, which sentenced defendant-appellant as a predicate felon to a term of imprisonment of 4 to 8 years upon a conviction after a jury trial of assault in the first degree (Penal Law § 120.10), unanimously reversed, on the law, the conviction vacated, and the indictment dismissed.

We reverse on the basis that defendant-appellant’s speedy trial trial motion should have been granted. The assault conviction stems from a crime that…