People v. Figueroa

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Mullen, J), rendered March 10, 2004, convicting him of grand larceny in the third degree and possession of burglar’s tools, 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 officials.

Ordered that the judgment is modified, on the law, by vacating the sentence imposed; as so modified, the judgment is affirmed, and the matter is remitted to the Supreme Court,…