Garcia v. State

liErik Omar Garcia was convicted in the Hempstead County Circuit Court on four counts of rape and six counts of second-degree sexual assault. On appeal, Garcia challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support his convictions and the trial court’s denial of his motion to suppress his statement to police. We affirm.

Garcia was charged by felony information after his two younger cousins alleged that he had raped them. 1 On the day of his arrest, Garcia was Mirandized and questioned by Officer Jesus Coronado of the Hope Police Department. Garcia admitted to Coronado that he had used his penis…