Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
It was reasonable in this case for the trial court to conclude that inspecting the scene of the crime would be unlikely to help the jury in deciding any material issue of fact. Accordingly, it was a proper exercise of the court's discretion to deny the defendant's request to permit the jury to view the scene (see, CPL 270.50 [1]; People v Hamilton,
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