The court properly exercised its discretion in denying defendant's mistrial motion, made on the basis of an isolated portion of the prosecutor's summation that allegedly made an improper statement of fact, since that comment was a permissible response to a corresponding portion of the defense summation (see generally People v Overlee,
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