People v. Rivera

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Ira Beal, J., at suppression hearing; Mary McGowan Davis, J., at non-jury trial and sentence), rendered December 2, 1998, convicting defendant of criminal possession of a weapon in the second and third degrees, and sentencing him to concurrent terms of 21/2 to 5 years and IV2 to 3 years, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s motion to suppress his statement to the police was properly denied. There is no basis upon which to disturb the court’s credibility determinations, which are supported by the record. The hearing court correctly found…