People v. Harris
| Decision Date | 08 February 1988 |
| Citation | 524 N.Y.S.2d 506,137 A.D.2d 619 |
| Parties | The PEOPLE, etc., Respondent, v. Tracy HARRIS, Appellant. |
| Court | New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division |
Matthew Muraskin, Hempstead (Kent V. Moston and Alfred O'Connor, of counsel), for appellant.
Denis Dillon, Dist. Atty., Mineola (Anthony J. Girese and Edward V. Corrigan, of counsel), for respondent.
Before MANGANO, J.P., and THOMPSON, BRACKEN and SPATT, JJ.
MEMORANDUM BY THE COURT.
Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Nassau County (Goodman, J.), rendered July 12, 1985, convicting him of robbery in the first degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for review the denial, after a hearing, of those branches of the defendant's omnibus motion which were to suppress certain statements to police officers and identification testimony.
ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant claims that the People failed to prove at the Huntley hearing (1) that he was properly advised of his Miranda rights, and (2) that he knowingly and voluntarily waived those rights before making an incriminating statement to Police Officer Campo. However, the testimony of Police Officer Campo that he read the Miranda rights to the defendant verbatim from a card and that the defendant indicated that he understood these rights and did not request an attorney is sufficient to establish that the defendant was properly advised of his rights ( see, People v. Gonzalez, 55 N.Y.2d 720, 447 N.Y.S.2d 145, 431 N.E.2d 630, cert. denied 456 U.S. 1010, 102 S.Ct. 2304, 73 L.Ed.2d 1306).
Further, the absence of testimony concerning an express waiver of rights before the defendant gave his statement is attributable to the defendant's failure to raise this issue as a ground for suppression. In any event, under all the circumstances of this case, a waiver may be fairly implied ( see, People v. Dunwoody, 89 A.D.2d 569, 570, 452 N.Y.S.2d 96). In light of these determinations, the defendant's argument that his subsequent written statement given to another police officer was tainted by a continuation of unlawful interrogation is also without merit.
The defendant's challenge to the identification procedures is similarly unavailing. The record demonstrates that neither the photographic arrays, from which the defendant was not selected, nor the lineup, from which the victim of this robbery selected the defendant, was unduly suggestive. Thus, there was no evidence of...
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