People v. Romero

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Jerome Hornblass, J., at trial and Huntley hearing), rendered November 7, 1985, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of stolen property in the first degree and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to 2V% to 5 years’ imprisonment, unanimously reversed, on the law, and a new trial ordered.

The defendant timely invoked his right to counsel and his statement to the police should have been suppressed.

Defendant’s conviction for criminal possession of stolen property in the first degree (Penal Law § 165.50) is based on the…