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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York, Appellant, v Eric Richards, Respondent.
    [743 NYS2d 306]
   —Appeal by the People from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Rotker, J.), dated July 10, 2001, which, after a hearing, granted the defendant’s motion to dismiss the indictment on the ground that he was deprived of his statutory right to a speedy trial.

Ordered that the order is affirmed.

Under the facts of this case, the Supreme Court properly granted the defendant’s motion to dismiss the indictment on the ground that was deprived of his right to a speedy trial (see CPL 30.30 [1] [a]). Prudenti, P.J., Ritter, Krausman and McGinity, JJ., concur.