PEOPLE EX REL. PAQUETTE v. CYRTA


25 N.Y.2d 749 (1969)

The People of the State of New York ex rel. Joseph Michael Paquette, Appellant, v. Charles Cyrta, as Warden of the Suffolk County Jail, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided June 2, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward T. Tighe and James D. Saver for appellant.

George J. Aspland, District Attorney (David F. Jordan of counsel), for respondent.

Chief Judge FULD and Judges BURKE, SCILEPPI, BERGAN, BREITEL and JASEN concur.


MEMORANDUM.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, without costs. In our view there was neither a denial of a speedy trial as guaranteed both by section 668 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution nor a violation of section 669-a of our Code. As to the latter, since the prison authorities acted expeditiously in forwarding the appellant...

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