People v. Williams

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County (Corso, J.), rendered May 27, 1998, convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth 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 statements made by him to law enforcement authorities.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.'

Prior to opening statements, the trial court ruled that the People could not introduce evidence that $900 was taken from the…