ALBANY – While conceding that district attorneys were not likely to welcome the result, the state’s highest court last week held prosecutors to speedy trial rules where a statute had been invalidated on appeal but then reinstated after nine months.
The “exceptional circumstances” waiver of deadlines under CPL 30.30 should be allowed only where prosecutors “for practical reasons beyond their control cannot proceed with a legally viable prosecution,” the Court of Appeals noted on Thursday in People v. Price, 7.
