People v. Lewis

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Pincus, J.), rendered October 23, 1985, convicting him of murder in the second 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 statement made by the defendant.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The People sustained their burden of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that the confession made by the defendant subsequent to his having been taken into police custody was voluntarily…