People v. Bodie

This appeal presents us squarely with the question whether one who is in police custody and against whom an information has been filed and an arrest warrant issued may waive his right to counsel with the result that inculpatory state*278ments thereafter made are admissible. We answer that question in the affirmative.

The defendant was convicted of selling heroin to one George Bermudez, an undercover police officer, in violation of subdivision 1 of section 1751 of the Penal Law. On July 24, 1963, in the Montieello bus terminal, the defendant was approached by Bermudez who .offered to buy some…