People v. Costa

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County (Camacho, J.), rendered December 4, 2014, convicting him of leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death, 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 his statements to law enforcement officials.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant contends that statements that he made to the police should have been suppressed because his attorney was ineffective in permitting him…