People v. Vasalka

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Nassau County (Orenstein, J.), rendered September 23, 1991, convicting him of robbery in the first degree and grand larceny in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, 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 statements to law enforcement authorities.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Under the circumstances of this case, the police officers were justified in detaining the defendant until the witness to the crime…