Ordered that the order is affirmed.
Since the incapacitated defendant has been in the custody of the Commissioner of Mental Hygiene for more than two-thirds of the authorized maximum term of imprisonment for manslaughter in the first degree, the indictment was properly dismissed (see, CPL 730.50 [3], [4]; People v Schaffer,
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