People v. Kollar

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Micki Scherer, J. at suppression hearing; George Daniels, J., at jury trial and sentence), rendered April 6, 1998, convicting defendant of murder in the second degree, and sentencing him to 25 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

The hearing court properly denied defendant’s motion to suppress his statements made to the police on May 22, 1996. Defendant voluntarily accompanied the detectives to the station to assist in the investigation of the murder, which occurred in the apartment across the hall from his own. He was not restrained in any way. Prior…