People v. Wende

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County (Kahn, J.), rendered February 1, 2012, convicting him of murder in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial, after a hearing (Hinrichs, J.), 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 County Court properly denied that branch of the defendant’s omnibus motion which was to suppress his statements to law enforcement officials. Probable cause to…