Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
We find no merit to the defendant's claim that he was deprived of the effective assistance of his trial counsel. In reviewing such a claim, "`[s]o long as the evidence, the law, and the circumstances of a particular case, viewed in totality and as of the time of the representation, reveal that the attorney provided meaningful representation, the constitutional requirement will have been met'" (People v Rivera,
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