The court's adverse inference instruction was a suitable remedy for a detective's inadvertent loss of the jacket that the victim had been wearing when he was shot, and the court properly exercised its discretion in declining to dismiss the indictment, declare a mistrial, or deliver a more lengthy charge (see People v Haupt,
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