It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from be and the same hereby is unanimously affirmed.
Memorandum:
County Court properly denied defendant's motion to sever counts one and two of the 12-count indictment for trial. Although the offenses charged in the indictment involve four separate incidents, the offenses are "the same or similar in law" (CPL 200.20 [2] [c]) and thus are properly joinable (see generally People v Lane,
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