Defendant's challenges to the People's summation are unpreserved, and we decline to review them in the interest of justice. As an alternative holding, we find that the challenged remarks generally constituted permissible rhetoric that fairly commented on the evidence and responded to defense arguments, that to the extent there were any improprieties they were not so egregious as to compel reversal, and that the summation did not deprive defendant of a fair trial (see People...
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