Defendant's consent to the prosecutor's belated exercise of a peremptory challenge was valid. The record establishes that defendant's consent was not coerced by the court's stated plan to begin jury selection anew in the event that defendant did not give such consent. In any event, the court's alternate plan would have been a proper exercise of discretion (see, Matter of Brackley v Donnelly,
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