People v. Cutter

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Jeffrey Atlas, J.), rendered November 24, 1997 convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of stolen property in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 2 to 4 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly denied suppression of defendant’s statements. The record supports the court’s finding that the statements were spontaneous and the conversation between the police officers, not directed at defendant, did not constitute the functional equivalent- of interrogation (see, People v Townsend,…