Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
Although the prosecutor in his opening statement improperly referred to the nontestifying codefendants' confessions implicating the defendant in the instant crime, and the prosecutor questioned a police witness in such a way as to render it obvious to the jury that the sources of certain incriminating information against the defendant were the confessions of the accomplices (see, People v Manuel,
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