Acknowledging that in 1977 she failed to appear to stand trial on narcotics indictments in Bronx County, the defendant nonetheless claims that her speedy trial rights were violated because the People failed to act when she was arrested in Manhattan in 1981 and subsequently placed on probation. To put it in another fashion, "Should the accused go free because the computer has blundered?"
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In October of 1976 the...
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