The court properly exercised its discretion in denying defendant's request for a continuance on the basis of his claimed medical unfitness to proceed. The court was entitled to rely on its observations of defendant's unexceptional demeanor and its own common-sense evaluation of the trivial nature of defendant's medical problem (People v Brown,
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