People v. Wynn

OPINION OF THE COURT

Shirley R Levittan, J.

The issue before the court is whether, after arrest without indictment, a delay in arraignment resulting primarily from a procedure recently employed in the Criminal Court of the City of • New York for the budgetary convenience of that city’s fiscally embarrassed police department, known as "pre-arraignment,” constitutes "unnecessary” delay within the meaning of CPL 120.90, 140.20 which mandate arraignment "without unnecessary delay,” when during such delay the accused, absent counsel, which he waived during the period of delay, makes inculpatory…