Opinion
April 9, 1996
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Bronx County (Lawrence Tonetti, J.).
The trial court properly denied defendant's constitutional speedy trial motion. The record, to the extent provided by defendant, reveals that the delay was not extraordinarily lengthy, was primarily due to the People's efforts to locate eyewitnesses, that the charges were serious and that defendant was not prejudiced by the delay ( People v. Davis, 197 A.D.2d 375, lv denied 82 N.Y.2d 893).
Nor was defendant's sentence excessive. Having received a highly favorable bargain after learning about damaging testimony from an eyewitness, which would have destroyed his self-defense claim, "`defendant should be bound by its terms'" ( supra, at 376), and we see no reason to reduce the sentence.
Concur — Sullivan, J.P., Ellerin, Rubin and Mazzarelli, JJ.