People v. Padilla

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County (Copertino, J.), rendered March 19, 1985, convicting him of rape in the first 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 a confession made by him to the police.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The court properly denied suppression of the defendant’s confession. The defendant, who speaks Spanish, was given his Miranda rights in English in a police car on the way to the…