People v. Martinez

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Gerges, J.), rendered February 5, 1998, convicting him of murder in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial, after a hearing (Starkey, J.), of that branch of the defendant’s omnibus motion which was to suppress statements made by him to law enforcement officials.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant’s claim that his statements should have been suppressed because he was arrested in…