People v. Hughes

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Frank Torres, J.), rendered March 26, 1998, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree (two counts) and unlawful possession of marihuana, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of seven years, 2Ah to 7 years, and 15 days, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s suppression motion was properly denied. Defendant’s false statement to the officer that he was “clean,” made before Miranda rights were given, was admissible because the officer’s brief question about whether defendant…