People v. Sterling

—Judgment unanimously affirmed. Memorandum: Defendant argues that Supreme Court erred in denying his pretrial motion to exclude from trial his statements to the police on the ground that they were the product of hypnosis and therefore unreliable (see, People v Schreiner, 77 NY2d 733; People v Hults, 76 NY2d 190; People v Hughes, 59 NY2d 523). He further argues that the court erred in refusing his request, with respect to the voluntariness of his statements (see, CPL 710.70 [3]), to charge the jury to disregard them unless they found beyond a reasonable doubt that the statements were not…