Defendant's suppression motion was properly denied. Defendant's statement to police concerning the cause of his bleeding hand was not rendered inadmissible by the absence of Miranda warnings, since the statement was not made in response to custodial interrogation. As the hearing court expressly concluded, at the time the statement was made defendant was being detained for a prompt identification, based upon reasonable suspicion that he was involved in a crime. Thus...
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