Judgment unanimously affirmed.
Memorandum:
At trial, defendant challenged the voluntariness of his confession. The burden is upon the People to establish voluntariness and, in the absence of circumstances involving physical force, voluntariness "may best be determined through an examination of the totality of the circumstances surrounding the confession" (People v Kennedy,
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