How have courts interpreted spontaneous statements by a police officer in a criminal case?

Our holding in People v. Lynes 49 N.Y.2d 286, 425 N.Y.S.2d 295, 401 N.E.2d 405, illustrates the delineating contrast. In Lynes the officer to whom the defendant made the statement (there also found by both lower courts to have been spontaneous, a finding which we did not disturb) had no knowledge of or connection with the charge concerning which a warrant had been issued against the defendant. To the defendant's question as to what the warrant was all about, the officer responded, "You should know, they are looking for you", whereupon the defendant made the incriminating statement sought to be suppressed. The listening officer had not given the defendant his constitutional preinterrogation warnings. He had not conveyed any suggestion that he had foreknowledge of the details of the charge. Nor had he otherwise

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