People v. Clarke

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Jeffrey Atlas, J.), rendered July 7, 1999, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of murder in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 25 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant’s motion to suppress his statement about his use of a significant nickname. This statement was taken at a police station shortly after defendant had been rearrested on a bench warrant issued for his failure to appear on a pending unrelated charge upon which he had been represented by counsel. There was…