People v. Santana

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Leahy, J.), rendered June 18, 1987, convicting him of manslaughter in the first 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 evidence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The record amply supports the finding of the Supreme Court that the defendant’s mother had the authority to consent, and did in fact voluntarily consent, to the entry of the police into the house in which…