People v. Jones

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Michael A. Corriero, J., at hearing; Arlene R. Silverman, J., at jury trial and sentence), rendered August 21, 2006, convicting defendant of two counts each of robbery in the third degree and criminal possession of stolen property in the fourth degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to an aggregate term of 3 to 6 years, unanimously affirmed.

The hearing court should have granted defendant’s motion to suppress his first statement to police since the officer’s statement was the “functional equivalent” of an interrogation without Miranda…