The court properly refused to permit defendant to introduce the suppression hearing testimony of a defense witness who had died between the hearing and the trial. Suppression hearing testimony is not one of the categories of prior testimony that may be received pursuant to CPL 670.10, and such testimony is therefore inadmissible as hearsay (People v Ayala,
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