Hummel saying “wait here” to Butler. The court also found that Deputy Hummel was conducting a preliminary crime scene investigation, not a custodial interrogation, when he spoke to Butler. The Nebraska Supreme Court has said that Miranda procedures are not meant to preclude law enforcement personnel from performing their traditional investigatory functions, such as general on-the-scene questioning as to the facts surrounding a crime or other general questioning of citizens in the factfinding process. State v. Bennett, 204 Neb. 28, 281 N.W.2d 216 (1979) (defendant interviewed as material witness at hospital, after he had directed police to murder victim at scene; defendant was not then viewed as suspect and was not in custody). See State v. Lopez, 249 Neb. 634, 544 N.W.2d 845 (1996) (<HOLDING>). However, Butler argues that once Deputy
holding that custodial interrogation by police must not occur prior to suspect being informed of his or her right to counsel and against selfincrimination holding that newspaper had sufficient interest to obtain access to police investigative files and autopsy report regarding suspect who had been shot to death while in police custody holding that general onthescene questioning as to facts surrounding crime does not constitute custodial interrogation in case where police who arrived at scene of murder and were greeted by owner of mobile home with news that victim had been shot had not taken defendant in custody when they asked her for her name and date of birth holding wife did not have a duty to warn a police officer who was shot while escorting her home that her husband had threatened to kill any police officer recognizing that not all statements obtained by the police after a person has been taken into custody are to be considered the product of interrogation