Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant contends that the hearing court erred in failing to suppress his statements on the ground that any waiver was ineffective due to his limited command of the English language. We disagree. " `To constitute an effective waiver, it is not necessary that a defendant comprehend the import of the Miranda warnings in the abstract, so long as he is able to understand the immediate meaning of the warnings'" (People...
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