Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The hearing court properly denied that branch of the defendant's omnibus motion which was to suppress his statements to law enforcement officials since a reasonable person, innocent of any crime, would not have believed that he was in custody at the time the defendant made his statements (see People v Ballard,
The sentence imposed was not excessive...
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