Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The trial court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in ordering that the jury be sequestered, notwithstanding the defendant's waiver of sequestration (see, CPL 310.10). "[T]he requirement that a deliberating jury be sequestered is entirely statutory and reflects no established common-law right of the defendant" (People v Webb,
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