People v Ortiz
2022 NY Slip Op 00113 [37 NY3d 1157]
January 11, 2022
Court of Appeals
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, March 9, 2022


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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,
v
Guillermo Ortiz, Appellant.

Decided January 11, 2022

People v Ortiz, 189 AD3d 587, affirmed.

APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL

Caprice R. Jenerson, Office of the Appellate Defender, New York City (Gabe Newland and Joseph M. Nursey of counsel), for appellant.

Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York City (Jared Wolkowitz and Dana Poole of counsel), for respondent.

{**37 NY3d at 1157} OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

Defendant contends that the police engaged in improper pre-Miranda custodial interrogation and, as a result, his post-Miranda statements and the gun and ammunition should have been suppressed. However, defendant's contention that the subsequent statements and physical evidence were fruit of the{**37 NY3d at 1158} unwarned statement is unpreserved for our review (see People v Panton, 27 NY3d 1144, 1145 [2016]).

While defendant's initial unwarned statement, made in response to custodial interrogation, should have been suppressed, that error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. Given the overwhelming evidence against defendant, including the videotaped statement made more than 24 hours after the unwarned statement, there was no reasonable possibility that his unwarned statement contributed to the verdict (see People v Romero, 27 NY3d 981, 982 [2016]; People v Crimmins, 36 NY2d 230, 237 [1975]; see also People v Ortiz, 189 AD3d 587, 587 [1st Dept 2020]). Furthermore, defendant failed to demonstrate that he was denied the effective assistance of counsel (see Strickland v Washington, 466 US 668, 687, 694 [1984]; People v Benevento, 91 NY2d 708, 713 [1998]) and the trial court did not abuse its discretion by denying defendant's CPL 440.10 motion without a hearing (see People v Gross, 26 NY3d 689, 696-697 [2016]). Defendant's remaining contention that his pre-Miranda statement violated the New York State Constitution is unpreserved.

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Chief Judge DiFiore and Judges Rivera, Garcia, Wilson, Singas and Cannataro concur.

On review of submissions pursuant to Rules of the Court of Appeals (22 NYCRR) § 500.11, order affirmed, in a memorandum.