Ordered that the judgments are affirmed.
The defendant's contention that he was deprived of a fair trial by the court's admission into evidence, inter alia, of the numerous vials of cocaine recovered from the crime scene is without merit. The fact that the police chemist who initially analyzed the contents of the vials did not testify at trial was not fatal to establishing the requisite "chain of custody" (People v Cummings,
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