People v. Rivera

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Egitto, J.), rendered July 7, 1986, 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 statements made by the defendant to law enforcement officials.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant’s murder conviction stems from the shooting death of Solomon Lewis. During his investigation into the crime, a detective learned that Lewis worked as…