People v. Jefferson

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County (J. Doyle, J.), rendered August 24, 2006, convicting him of arson in the fifth degree, after a nonjury trial, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial, after a hearing (Gazzillo, J), of that branch of the defendant’s omnibus motion which was to suppress his statement to law enforcement officials.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant contends that a certain remark made to him by a detective prior to the administration of Miranda warnings (see Miranda v Arizona, 384 US 436 [1966])…