Opinion
September 30, 1985
Appeal from the County Court, Suffolk County (Copertino, J.).
Judgment affirmed.
Having never objected in the County Court to the adequacy of his plea allocution, defendant failed, as a matter of law, to preserve this claim for appellate review (see, People v Pellegrino, 60 N.Y.2d 636; People v Santiago, 100 A.D.2d 857). A reversal in the interest of justice is not warranted, as there is no indication in the record that the plea was not knowingly, intelligently and voluntarily entered (see, People v Harris, 61 N.Y.2d 9; People v Sprow, 104 A.D.2d 1056). Furthermore, we find that the County Court correctly held that defendant's statements made at the time of arrest would be admissible at trial. These statements were not the product of custodial interrogation, but rather were made in response to the police officers' attempt to clarify the nature of the criminal situation with which they were then confronted (see, People v Huffman, 41 N.Y.2d 29; People v Chestnut, 51 N.Y.2d 14, cert denied 449 U.S. 1018). Gibbons, J.P., Thompson, Weinstein and Kunzeman, JJ., concur.