People v. Zheng Zheng

250 A.D.2d 353, 672 N.Y.S.2d 686, 1998 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 5256

• Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
• Decided: May 5, 1998
• Status: Published

Opinion

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Denis Boyle, J., at Huntley hearing; Gerald Sheindlin, J., at plea and sentencing), rendered December 14, 1995, which convicted defendant of robbery in the first degree, and sentenced him to a term of 7 to 21 years, unanimously affirmed.

The interpreter’s testimony, properly credited by the hearing court, established that recitation of Miranda warnings to defendant in Mandarin, a language defendant understood, and defendant’s responses to said warnings in that same language, resulted in a knowing and voluntary waiver of his rights (see, People v Jordan, 110 AD2d 855). Concur — Lerner, P. J., Nardelli, Wallach, Rubin and Mazzarelli, JJ.