People v. Powell
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Leslie Crocker Snyder, J.), rendered January 25, 2001, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of murder in the first degree, and sentencing him to a term of life without parole, unanimously affirmed.
Defendant’s motion to suppress his confession was properly denied. Defendant’s comment that he thought he would wait *411for a lawyer was not an unequivocal assertion to his right to counsel when viewed in context of the totality of circumstances, particularly with respect to events following the comment itself (see People v Glover, 87 NY2d 838 [1995]; see…
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