Sixto Lopez appeals from a judgment rendered May 4, 1979 convicting him upon his plea of guilty of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree and sentencing him to an indeterminate term of four years to life. The issue is the denial of a speedy trial.
Lopez is alleged to have made two illegal sales of heroin on December 21 and 22, 1976, to undercover police then engaged
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