People v. Belgrave

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Peter McQuillan, J.), rendered March 22, 1985, convicting defendant after a jury trial of murder in the second degree, and sentencing him to 15 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant was convicted for the killing of his estranged *336wife, whom he shot several times and threw, alive, into the East River, where she drowned. Defendant made various inculpatory statements to several persons, including a fellow prisoner who in the past had provided information to law enforcement authorities.

Defendant’s motion to suppress was denied following a hearing…