People v. Spina
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
—Judgment unanimously affirmed. Memorandum: Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him after a jury trial of two counts of murder in the second degree (Penal Law § 125.25 [1]) in connection with the stabbing deaths of his estranged wife and another individual. County Court properly refused to suppress statements he made to the police before receiving Miranda warnings. We disagree with defendant that he was in custody when he made those statements while standing at the edge of the Niagara River near the brink of Niagara Falls and threatening suicide (see generally, People v Yukl, 25 NY2d…
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