PEOPLE v. MANINO

ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant moved to suppress a knife seized during a search of his home. The Supreme Court denied his request for a hearing, concluding that he was collaterally estopped from relitigating the issue of the admissibility of the knife based on a prior ruling in a Queens County criminal proceeding which purportedly determined that the defendant's wife consented to the search. The defendant correctly contends that the court erred in applying the doctrine of collateral estoppel because the issue of consent was not necessarily decided in the Queens County proceeding ( see Matter of Juan C. v. Cortines, 89 N.Y.2d 659, 667; People v. Aguilera, 82 N.Y.2d 23, 29-30). However, remittal for a hearing is not required because any error in admitting the knife was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt ( see People v. Crimmins, 36 N.Y.2d 230).

The defendant's remaining contentions, including those raised in his supplemental pro se brief, are without merit.

PRUDENTI, P.J., ALTMAN, SMITH and ADAMS, JJ., concur.