Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant contends, inter alia, that his confession should be suppressed because it was obtained as a result of police deception and trickery. We disagree. Although the police falsely informed the defendant, before obtaining his confession, that the co-perpetrator had implicated the defendant in the subject crime, this ruse was not so fundamentally unfair as to deny the defendant due process of law (see,
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