The court properly denied defendant's motion to suppress statements to the police. The record supports the court's finding that the statements were spontaneous and thus did not require Miranda warnings. Spontaneity in the context of preinterrogation warnings turns on whether a statement made was the product of "express questioning or its functional equivalent" (Rhode Island v Innis,
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