People v. Gonzalez

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Posner, J.), rendered May 22, 1989, convicting him of manslaughter in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial, after a hearing (Giaccio, J.), of that branch of the defendant’s omnibus motion which was to suppress his statements to law enforcement authorities.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Initially, we reject the defendant’s contention that the Huntley hearing court erred in denying his motion to suppress the statements he made to the police. The…