Opinion
December 23, 1985
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Queens County (Gallagher, J.).
Judgment affirmed.
The hearing court properly denied defendant's motion to suppress his statements and certain physical evidence seized from his house at the time of his arrest. Defendant's claim that Miranda warnings should have been given to him earlier and before he admitted that he was with the codefendants on the night of the robbery is based on the erroneous assumption that Miranda warnings must be given to people suspected of having engaged in criminal activity, and is without merit. The court in Miranda v Arizona ( 384 U.S. 436) held that the prosecution may not use statements stemming from custodial interrogation of the defendant, unless it demonstrates that the four appropriate warnings were given and defendant waived his rights. Criminal Term's finding that defendant was not in custody at the time he gave his statements to the police is supported by the evidence (see, Matter of Kwok T., 43 N.Y.2d 213; People v Rodney P., 21 N.Y.2d 1; Matter of Matthew O., 91 A.D.2d 1093; People v Munro, 86 A.D.2d 683).
Defendant's right to an adjudication of his youthful offender status was waived inasmuch as he made no assertion at the time of sentence that he was entitled to such an adjudication (see, People v McGowen, 42 N.Y.2d 905; People v Lopez, 81 A.D.2d 675; People v Davis, 66 A.D.2d 801). Lazer, J.P., Bracken, Weinstein and Kunzeman, JJ., concur.