Opinion
Argued February 11, 1986
Decided May 13, 1986
Appeal from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Second Judicial Department, Sybil Hart Kooper, J.
Abigail Everett and Philip L. Weinstein for appellant.
Elizabeth Holtzman, District Attorney (Sarah G. Noll and Barbara D. Underwood of counsel), for respondent.
MEMORANDUM.
The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.
Notwithstanding that defendant's earlier statement was given without Miranda warnings, his later statement made after such warnings cannot be said, as a matter of law, to have been given in violation of his right against compulsory self-incrimination. This follows from the findings of the Trial Judge, supported by the record and undisturbed by the Appellate Division, and, therefore, beyond our power of review, that defendant voluntarily accompanied the detective to the station house; that he was left unattended in the detective's office from 8:00 P.M. to 3:00 A.M. while his earlier statement was being investigated; that he was given food, drink and, when he complained of the cold, a sweater; that he was permitted contact with a family member; and that when he testified he made no claim that he had been told he could not leave (People v Winchell, 64 N.Y.2d 826; People v Williams, 63 N.Y.2d 882; cf. People v Chapple, 38 N.Y.2d 112).
Moreover, duress, like entrapment and extreme emotional disturbance, "does not serve to negate any facts of the crime which the State is to prove in order to convict" (Patterson v New York, 432 U.S. 197, 207, affg People v Patterson, 39 N.Y.2d 288). It is rather a separate issue in disproof of intent, the State being required in the first instance to prove the necessary intent. Penal Law § 40.00, which denominates duress an affirmative defense, is, therefore, constitutional (People v Patterson, supra; People v Laietta, 30 N.Y.2d 68, 75).
The other issues raised by defendant are either unpreserved or lacking in merit.
Chief Judge WACHTLER and Judges MEYER, SIMONS, KAYE, ALEXANDER and HANCOCK, JR., concur; Judge TITONE taking no part.
Order affirmed in a memorandum.