People v. Goodings

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Michael Obús, J.), rendered June 20, 2001, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of assault in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to a term of seven years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s suppression motion was properly denied. Defendant’s statement to police concerning the cause of his bleeding hand was not rendered inadmissible by the absence of Miranda warnings, since the statement was not made in response to custodial interrogation. As the hearing court expressly concluded, at the time the statement…