OPINION OF THE COURT
NARDELLI, J.
The genesis of this proceeding is a notorious incident involving a brutal rape and robbery in 1973 in Manhattan. The issues presented are whether defendant's statutory and constitutional rights to a speedy trial were violated, and also whether the trial court should have conducted an inquiry of the jurors to determine whether they had read an article in a prominent newspaper about the trial on the day it commenced.
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