Case ID: ad2d_190/html/0593-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Butch Simpson, Appellant.
   — Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Alvin Schlesinger, J., at suppression hearing and plea; Clifford Scott, J., at sentence), rendered July 10, 1991, convicting defendant, upon his plea of guilty, of attempted burglary in the second degree, and sentencing him to a prison term of 2 to 4 years, unanimously affirmed.

Contrary to defendant’s contention, his statements were not the product of custodial interrogation. Defendant, who with his accomplice had been handcuffed, spoke up upon hearing a police officer question the superintendent as to whether defendant was on the premises with his permission. Defendant was not induced or provoked into challenging the superintendent’s account. Concur — Murphy, P. J., Carro, Kupferman, Asch and Kassal, JJ.