Ordered that the judgment, as amended, is reversed, on the law, the indictment is dismissed, and the matter is remitted to the Supreme Court, Kings County, for the purpose of entering an order in its discretion pursuant to CPL 160.50.
"[I]n order to establish a defendant's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt on the basis of exclusively circumstantial proof, `the hypothesis of guilt should flow naturally from the facts proved, and be consistent with them; and the facts...
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