Court of Appeals of New York

A trial court did not err in declining to suppress defendant's confessions where: 1) defendant voluntarily appeared at the police station to speak to detectives, did not incriminate himself prior to receiving Miranda warnings, and there was only a brief exchange between the detectives and defendant once the interview arguably became a custodial interrogation; and 2) although the initial post-Miranda interview was conducted by the same detectives in the same room as pre-Miranda discussions, defendant's decision to disclose the incriminatory information did not constitute a single continuous chain of events when questioning ceased for approximately four hours before he received Miranda warnings and confessed for the first time.

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• Decided 06/12/2008
• Published 06/12/2008

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• Court of Appeals of New York

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