PEOPLE v. THOMPSON (1998)

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Mary McGowan Davis, J.), rendered May 15, 1996, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of manslaughter in the first degree, and sentencing him to a term of 81/313 to 25 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly denied defendant's motion to suppress the videotaped confession, since there was a pronounced break in the interrogation that “was occasioned by a sufficient lapse of time [and] interrogation by a different” person, such that the taped statement was not tainted by the factors that led to suppression of the prior oral and written statements (People v. Vientos, 164 A.D.2d 122, 127, 561 N.Y.S.2d 443, affd. 79 N.Y.2d 771, 579 N.Y.S.2d 633, 587 N.E.2d 271).   The record amply supports the court's factual findings.

MEMORANDUM DECISION.