People v. Brown

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Miller, J.), rendered July 9, 1985, convicting him of murder in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant contends that the admission into evidence of the interlocking confession of the codefendant Leonis West undermined his attempts to contest the voluntariness of his written statement and that reversal is therefore warranted. We disagree. Although pursuant to Cruz v New York (481 US 186), the trial court erred in denying the defendant’s motion *406fo…