Smith v. United States

This appeal from appellant’s convictions for introducing contraband, a pistol, into a penal institution in violation of D.C.Code § 22-2603 (1989), and related weapon offenses, challenges only the admission into evidence of a statement by appellant which he contends was the product of custodial interrogation and obtained without provision of Miranda ** warnings. We affirm.

I

Appellant, an inmate at the Community Correction Center Number One at 1010 North Capitol Street, N.W., returned to the Center from work at about 8:45 p.m. on July 8, 1989. As he entered the office of Zion Beard, a…