Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The County Court providently exercised its discretion in denying the defendant's request to admit into evidence the codefendant's out-of-court statement to a police officer as a declaration against penal interest. The portion of the statement that the defendant sought to admit did not directly inculpate the codefendant (see People v Geoghegan,
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