People v. Rivas

— Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Heller, J.), rendered July 5, 1988, convicting him of robbery in the first 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 a statement made by him to the police.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Contrary to the defendant’s contention, the trial court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in ruling that the prosecutor could cross-examine him with respect to the underlying…