Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant contends that the hearing court erred in failing to suppress a statement made by him to the police. However, the admission of the defendant's statement at trial was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt, as it was largely exculpatory, and was duplicative of his earlier statements to police, which were properly introduced into evidence (see People v Benjamin,
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