People v. Johnson

Memorandum. The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

Whether defendant’s confession was voluntarily given and thus admissible against him involved only a factual determination, which having been made in favor of the People at County Court and thereafter affirmed at the Appellate Division, is beyond the scope of our review. In passing we observe that no claim was advanced at the suppression hearing based on assertions that defendant had been illegally detained. Moreover illegality, if any, of a detention is only one of the factors to be considered on the issue of voluntariness…