The court properly exercised its discretion in denying defendant's mistrial motion based on misconduct by a codefendant in the presence of the jury. The court conducted thorough inquiries of the individual jurors, which established that the codefendant's courtroom behavior had no prejudicial effect on defendant, and delivered thorough curative instructions (see, People v Smith,
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