Defendant moves to dismiss a felony charge pending against him in the Brooklyn Felony Court since December 9, 1956, on the ground that he has been deprived of his right to a "speedy hearing and trial."
During the pendency of this charge the defendant was serving a sentence of two and one-half to five years in Greenhaven State Prison on a prior charge for attempted burglary in the third degree.
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