People v. Blake

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Nassau County (Baker, J.), rendered March 23, 1984, 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 his statements.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The trial court properly determined, after a hearing, that the fellow inmate who testified to a confession made by the defendant while in jail was not acting as a government agent; the facts of this case do not…