People v. Brewer

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Friedman, J.), rendered April 9, 1997, convicting him of grand larceny in the fourth degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial, after a hearing, of the defendant’s motion to suppress inculpatory statements made by him.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant claims that the gold chain that he grabbed from the complaining witness should have been ruled inadmissible at trial because it was recovered pursuant to a coerced statement which he made at the time…