People v. Burns
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (George B. Daniels, J), rendered September 9, 1997, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of murder in the second degree, and sentencing him to a term of 25 years to life, unanimously affirmed.
The court properly denied defendant’s motion to suppress his statements to police. His initial questioning was not custodial and did not require Miranda warnings (see Oregon v Mathiason, 429 US 492, 495 [1977]). The test of whether an interrogation is custodial is what a reasonable person in the defendant’s position, innocent of any crime, would have thought…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Oregon v. MathiasonSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Thompson v. KeohaneSupreme Court of the United States · 1995
- People v. YuklNew York Court of Appeals · 1969
- People v. MaerlingNew York Court of Appeals · 1978
- People v. RobinsonNew York Court of Appeals · 1997
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