The court properly exercised its discretion in denying defendant's mistrial motion, made after the investigating detective stated, contrary to a prior ruling by the court, that he was currently assigned to the Sex Offender Monitoring Unit. The court's curative instruction made it clear that the reassignment had no relevance to this case (see People v Santiago,
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