People v. Sears

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Richmond County (Rooney, J.), rendered August 16, 2001, convicting him of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial (Rienzi, J.), after a hearing, of that branch of the defendant’s omnibus motion which was to suppress his statements to law enforcement authorities.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant made certain statements to a particular detective who, in effect,…