Order affirmed.
As the People failed to demonstrate by nonhearsay evidence the existence of a joint criminal venture, the court was correct in refusing to apply the declaration by a coconspirator in furtherance of the conspiracy exception to the hearsay rule (see, People v Berkowitz,
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