People v. Berring

— Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County (Weiss-man, J.), rendered April 16, 1987, convicting him of murder in the second degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial, after a hearing, of that branch of the defendant’s omnibus motion which was to suppress statements made by him to the police.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The hearing testimony supports the finding that the defendant made an intelligent and voluntary decision to waive his right to the presence of an attorney, and that he expressly…