People v. Buchanan

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Clinton County, rendered December 6, 1974, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crime of petit larceny. Determination of this appeal was withheld pending an evidentiary hearing into defendant’s claimed deprivation of a speedy trial (People v Buchanan, 51 AD2d 624). That hearing has since been concluded and we will proceed to review the issues raised by defendant without unnecessarily repeating the salient facts outlined in our prior decision. The record now reveals that 14 criminal trials were commenced in Clinton County during the 19 months…