Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The court properly permitted the prosecutor to use the defendant's testimony from a prior trial involving another participant in the murder and the defendant's prior statement to the police as evidence at his own trial (see, People v Evans,
The defendant was not deprived of the effective assistance of counsel (see, People v Smith,
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