People v. Bostic

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Kooper, J.), rendered January 31, 1985, convicting him of manslaughter in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial (Potoker, J.), after a hearing, 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.

The hearing court properly refused to suppress, on Sixth Amendment grounds, the defendant’s inculpatory postarrest statements to a detective. Once the…