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THE REMARKS MADE BY THE POLICE DURING THE INTERROGATION OF DEFENDANT SERVED TO NEGATE THE MIRANDA WARNINGS; INTERROGATION CONTINUED AFTER DEFENDANT ASSERTED HIS RIGHT TO COUNSEL; THE ERRORS WERE DEEMED HARMLESS BECAUSE DEFENDANT WOULD HAVE BEEN CONVICTED EVEN IF THE STATEMENTS HAD BEEN SUPPRESSED (FOURTH DEPT).

The Fourth Department determined questioning by the police effectively negated the Miranda warnings and questioning continued after defendant invoked his right to counsel. The errors were deemed harmless because the defendant would have been convicted even if the statements had been suppressed:

“Properly administered Miranda rights can be rendered inadequate and ineffective when they are contradicted by statements suggesting that there is a price for asserting the rights to remain silent or to counsel, such as foregoing ‘a valuable opportunity to speak with an assistant district attorney, to have [the] case[ ] investigated or to assert alibi defenses’ ” … . The police officer’s statement here improperly implied to defendant that the interrogation would be his “only opportunity to speak” … , and his advice that providing an explanation would benefit defendant effectively “implied that . . . defendant[‘s] words would be used to help [him], thus undoing the heart of the warning that anything [he] said could and would be used against [him]” … . * * *

… [A]bout 20 minutes into the interrogation, defendant expressly stated that he did not “want to talk about more of this[, i.e., the shooting]. That’s it.” … [D]efendant thereby unequivocally invoked his right to remain silent …  inasmuch as “[n]o reasonable police officer could have interpreted that statement as anything other than a desire not to talk to the police” … . Defendant’s responses to the police officers when they resumed the interrogation did not negate his prior unequivocal invocation of his right to remain silent because the police officers failed to reread the Miranda warnings to defendant before resuming the interrogation and therefore failed to scrupulously honor his right to remain silent … . People v Marrero, 2021 NY Slip Op 06510, Fourth Dept 11-19-21

 

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