People v. Simpkins

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Demarest, J.), rendered June 14, 1999, convicting him of murder in the second degree and manslaughter in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial, after a hearing (Tomei, J.), of that branch of the defendant’s omnibus motion which was to suppress his statements to law enforcement officials.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The trial court properly granted the prosecution’s motion to include attempted robbery as an underlying felony for the felony…