The court properly found defendant fit to proceed to trial following CPL article 730 examinations. Defendant's answers to questions about the legal process showed that he "evinced an understanding of the purpose of a trial, the actors in a trial, their roles, the nature of the charges against him, and the severity of a potential conviction and sentence" (People v Phillips,
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