People v. Watson

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Gerald Sheindlin, J.), rendered September 22, 1995, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of murder in the second degree, and sentencing him to a term of 20 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s suppression motion was properly denied. The record supports the court’s finding that the ruse used by the police to obtain entry into defendant’s apartment by misrepresenting the identity of the person being sought did not deprive defendant’s girlfriend of her freedom of choice and was not so unfair as to undermine her consent (see, Schneckloth…