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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Ripple finds that the lower court properly denied defendant's motion to suppress incriminating statements he made to police that led to his heroin distribution conviction. Defendant's waiver of his Miranda rights while in a hospital bed was valid despite his drug overdose just two hours prior. Neither intoxication nor an impaired mental state necessarily renders a Miranda waiver invalid, and the court reasonably credited police officers' testimony that defendant was alert and coherent. Affirmed.
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