The trial court properly declined to charge assault in the third degree as a lesser included offense of assault in the second degree, there being no reasonable view of the evidence that the braided belt used to pummel the victim was not a dangerous instrument within the meaning of Penal Law § 10.00 (13) (see, People v Carter,
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