Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant's claim that a detective's statement to the complainant that a photograph of the defendant would be included in the photopack compromised the validity of the identification and, consequently, tainted the lineup identification, is without merit. It is well settled that an identification is not automatically contaminated by an officer's remark that a subject is in custody (People v Rodriguez,
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