To the extent that defendant's challenges to the prosecutor's summation are preserved, the summation was an appropriate response to that delivered by defense counsel, which, because of repeated personal attacks on the prosecutor and other inappropriate arguments, prompted the court to give the prosecutor "a good deal of leeway in responding" (see, People v Santos,
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