After a thorough hearing, the court properly determined that defendant was competent to stand trial, and, as to that aspect of the appeal, we affirm for the reasons stated by Justice Phylis Skloot Bamberger.
The court properly declined to deliver a jury instruction on the voluntariness of defendant's statement to the police, or to permit counsel to make such argument to the jury, since there was no such issue raised at trial or evidence to support such a claim (
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