People v. Lovello

Defendant’s conviction was on four counts of criminally buying and receiving stolen property as a felony. There is no dispute as to the sufficiency of the prosecution’s proof. The conviction must, however, be reversed for the reasons stated in the dissenting opinion at the Appellate Division.

The Trial Judge declined to charge the jury, as requested by defendant’s counsel, that “ the police officers were guilty of j unnecessary delay as a matter of law ”. An exception was taken. Defendant had been arrested late on a Saturday night and held in custody all that night, all day Sunday and through…