Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The Supreme Court properly determined that the defendant's last written and videotaped statements should not be suppressed even though the initial arrest was invalid for lack of probable cause. The causal connection between the illegal arrest and the subject statements was sufficiently attenuated to purge the taint of the illegal arrest (see, Dunaway v New York,
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