State v. Veltri

OPINION

After convicting a defendant of driving while intoxicated, should a Superior Court trial justice have granted the defendant’s motion for a new trial, overturned his conviction, and then dismissed the charges against him on the grounds that, after his arrest, the police had failed to provide him with a free telephone call? No, we hold, absent any evidence that the defendant had suffered substantial and irremediable prejudice as a result.

After convicting defendant, Alfred J. Veltri (Veltri or defendant), of one count of driving while intoxicated, the Superior Court vacated the verdict…