People v. Acosta

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Dorothy Cropper, J.), rendered September 24, 1996, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of two counts of murder in the second degree, and sentencing him to concurrent terms of 25 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s motion to suppress was properly denied, based upon the hearing court’s finding that defendant had failed to present any evidence at the hearing either that he had been represented by counsel in the two pending cases for which bench warrants had been issued years earlier, or that the police were aware of such representation…