People v. Robinson

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Mullen, J.), rendered April 23, 2002, convicting him of assault in the second degree and criminal mischief in the fourth 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 to law enforcement authorities.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered.

The Supreme Court correctly denied the defendant’s motion to suppress his statements as the…