Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence adduced at trial to establish his guilt of robbery in the first degree. In order to prove the defendant's guilt of this crime, the People were required to prove that the defendant actually used an instrument during the crime which was "readily capable of causing death or other serious physical injury" (Penal Law § 10.00 [13]; People v Pena,
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