The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.
Defendant's voluntary waiver is established by a finding of fact. That defendant was a patient in the Capital District Psychiatric Center at the time of waiver is not sufficient to meet defendant's burden of persuasion, the People having shown the legality of the police conduct in the first instance (People v Di Stefano,
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