People v. Cruz

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Latella, J.), rendered December 5, 2011, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree (two counts) and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree (two counts), after a nonjury trial, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial, after a hearing, of that branch of the defendant’s omnibus motion which was to suppress his statement to law enforcement officials.

Ordered that the judgment is modified, on the law, by vacating the convictions of…