The court properly denied defendant's suppression motion. After his arrest, but before receiving Miranda warnings, defendant initiated a conversation with the police in which he sought to obtain leniency by providing information about criminal activity by other persons. The brief conversation was not interrogation, not only because it did not pertain to defendant's case (see People v Burton,
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