A police officer’s sniffing of a teenage partygoer’s breath for alcohol constituted custodial questioning that triggered the right to Miranda warnings, a state appeals court has held.
Absent those warnings, defendant Zeb Koch’s alleged admission to chugging a beer should have been suppressed, the Appellate Division said in reversing his conviction for underage drinking.
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