The court properly denied defendant's motion to suppress his statements to the police. Defendant's statement at the scene of his arrest was spontaneous and not the product of interrogation or its functional equivalent. The officer's innocuous general comments about the case made on the way to the police car were not reasonably likely to elicit an incriminating response (see People v Rivers,
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