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DEFENDANT WAS NOT IN CUSTODY WHEN HIS STATEMENTS WERE MADE, SUPPRESSION MOTION SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN GRANTED (FOURTH DEPT).

The Fourth Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined defendant’s motion to suppress his statements should not have been granted. The People demonstrated defendant was not in custody when the statements were made:

“In determining whether a defendant was in custody for Miranda purposes, [t]he test is not what the defendant thought, but rather what a reasonable [person], innocent of any crime, would have thought had he [or she] been in the defendant’s position’ ” … . We reject defendant’s contention that the People failed to meet their “burden of showing that [he] voluntarily went to the [detectives’ office] where he allegedly made the inculpatory statements”… . Indeed, the People “properly demonstrated by unchallenged hearsay testimony” that defendant voluntarily accompanied the officers to the detectives’ office for questioning and, inasmuch as defendant did not dispute that fact in either his motion papers or his arguments on the motion, that testimony was sufficient to sustain the People’s burden … . We further conclude that defendant was not in custody when he made the statements because he was informed that he was not under arrest and that he would be going home that day, he was not handcuffed, he was permitted to leave the interview room several times, he never asked to leave the office nor was he told that he could not leave, and he was not arrested that day … . People v Bell-Scott, 2018 NY Slip Op 04192, Fourth Dept 6-8-18

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