People v. Patterson

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Barbara, J.), rendered December 13, 2002, convicting him of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, 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 his statements to law enforcement officials.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Contrary to the defendant’s contention, the hearing court properly determined that his statements were not suppressible as the fruits of an illegal…