People v. Pena

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Martin Marcus, J., at suppression hearing; Gerald Sheindlin, J., at nonjury trial and sentence), rendered June 26, 1998, convicting defendant of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him to a term of 2 to 6 years, unanimously affirmed.

The hearing court properly denied defendant’s motion to suppress his written and videotaped confessions. Although the court suppressed a pistol that had been recovered from defendant’s place of work, the court correctly determined that defendant’s statements were not products of the unlawful…