People v. Bramble

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Richard D. Carruthers, J., at suppression hearing; Thomas B. Galligan, J., at jury trial and sentence), rendered January 10, 1992, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of manslaughter in the first degree and sentencing him to a term of 8 Vs to 25 years in prison, unanimously affirmed.

The People concede that the defendant was in custody when he made a second statement to the arresting officers concerning the knife used to stab the victim and its whereabouts in his apartment. Therefore it was error to deny suppression of that second statement as…