People v. Jeffries

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Troy K. Webber, J, on suppression and speedy trial motions; Martin Marcus, J., at plea and sentence), rendered March 15, 2005, convicting defendant of assault in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent violent felony offender, to a term of 14 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

By pleading guilty, defendant forfeited his statutory speedy trial claim (see People v O'Brien, 56 NY2d 1009 [1982]). Defendant’s constitutional speedy trial claim is improperly raised for the first time in his reply brief (see People v Napolitano, 282 AD2d 49, 53…