People v. Beltran

— Judgment of the Supreme Court, Bronx County (Parness, J., at plea and sentence; Warner, J., at speedy trial hearing) rendered January 11, 1980, reversed, on the law and the facts, the motion to dismiss for failure to accord defendant a speedy trial granted, and the indictment dismissed. Defendant was charged with beating the woman with whom he lived with a stick on September 10, 1972, as a result of which she fell out of a window. By consequence of the fall she died. On October 19, 1972, defendant was indicted for manslaughter in the first and second degrees. The case was initially assigned…