Ordered that the judgment, as amended, is affirmed.
The County Court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in denying the defendant's motion pursuant to CPL 200.20 (3) to sever the two charges in the indictment, which arose from separate incidents on separate dates. The crimes were "the same or similar in law" (CPL 220.20 [2] [c]; see Penal Law § 160.15 [4]), and consequently were properly joinable (see People v Jenkins,
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