People v. Imbesi

The sole item for review on this appeal from an order of affirmance of a judgment of conviction for attempted rape in the first degree is defendant’s claimed denial of a speedy trial.

In early August, 1968, defendant, a shipping clerk for a dress company, made the acquaintance of an airline stewardess, by posing as the designer of the garment she was wearing as she strolled through a New York City hotel lobby. He sold her two dresses for $5 apiece and, upon mention that he had others for sale, secured the young woman’s name and phone number. During the next few weeks he called her apartment at…