The adverse inference charge given by the court was an appropriate exercise of discretion and provided an adequate sanction rectifying any harm caused by the People's failure to preserve the necklaces that were allegedly damaged when defendant forcibly pulled them off of the undercover officer's neck (see, People v Kelly,
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