People v. Valentin

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (D’Emic, J.), rendered June 15, 2011, convicting him of murder in the second degree and manslaughter 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 his statements to law enforcement officials.

*824Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The evidence at the suppression hearing revealed that when the police arrived at the scene in response to a report of “a dispute with a knife,”…