Opinion
December 11, 1989
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Queens County (Leahy, J.).
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The record amply supports the finding of the Supreme Court that the defendant's mother had the authority to consent, and did in fact voluntarily consent, to the entry of the police into the house in which she and the defendant lived (see, People v Prochilo, 41 N.Y.2d 759; People v Castillo, 131 A.D.2d 495). Accordingly, the Supreme Court properly denied that branch of the defendant's omnibus motion which was to suppress evidence subsequently discovered in the home.
The defendant also argues that he should have been given his Miranda warnings before the police asked him, upon their initial entry to the home, about his whereabouts the previous night, and that his response to that question must therefore be suppressed. This argument must also be rejected. The evidence adduced in the record clearly demonstrates that this one question did not constitute custodial interrogation (see, People v Yukl, 25 N.Y.2d 585; People v Bryant, 71 A.D.2d 564, affd 50 N.Y.2d 949).
Finally, we have reviewed the defendant's remaining argument with respect to the alleged excessiveness of the sentence, and find it to be without merit (see, People v Kazepis, 101 A.D.2d 816; People v Brown, 114 A.D.2d 1036). Mangano, J.P., Thompson, Lawrence and Rosenblatt, JJ., concur.