The court providently exercised its discretion in denying defendant's motion for severance of his trial from that of his codefendant. As presented at trial, the codefendant's theory that he was misidentified and defendant's theory that there was no robbery at all were not mutually exclusive, but rather "were compatible and neither defendant implicated the other" (People v Funches,
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