The Albany County Correctional Facility. (Will Waldron/Times Union)

Michael Snyder Sr. was arraigned in April 2019 on two felonies, third-degree rape and criminal sex act (the legal term for sodomy), as well as misdemeanor charges of sexual abuse — all related to his position as a correction officer at Albany County's jail. He pleaded not guilty and was suspended without pay.

The case was dismissed a year later by state Supreme Court Justice Thomas Breslin — not because of a lack of evidence, but because the Albany County district attorney's office had bungled its obligation to follow "speedy trial" rules. The judge pointedly criticized the prosecution's work as "fraught with dilatory conduct" (Merriam-Webster: "tending or........

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