The People of the State of New York v. Joseph Lovello

Summary

The New York Court of Appeals reversed the convictions for four counts of criminally buying and receiving stolen property and ordered a new trial. The reversal was based on reversible errors: the trial court’s refusal to charge the jury on the illegal delay in arraignment and its allowance of the jury to decide the reasonableness of that delay, and the prosecutor’s improper self‑serving remarks that effectively made him an unsworn witness.