People v. Greer

In People v. Greer (42 NY2d 170 [1977]) the asking officer, after hearing a call for help, and seeing a car with an open door and a woman's sandal and purse on the ground in a deserted industrial area, saw a man and a woman and asked, "What's going on here?" (42 NY2d at 172-173). The man answered, "this is my woman." (Id. at 173.) The officer then asked what her name was and the defendant replied, "I don't know." (Id.) These questions were also deemed non-interrogatory for Miranda purposes and part of the "statutorily permissible demand for 'an explanation of conduct.'" (Id. at 177.)