Judgment affirmed.
The jury properly found that the defendant used or threatened to use a dangerous instrument in the course of the robbery (see, Penal Law § 160.15 [3]). "It is the temporary use rather than the inherent vice of the object which brings it within the purview of the statute" (People v Carter,
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