Defendant's various severance motions, made both before and during trial, were properly denied. All of these motions were untimely (see CPL 255.10 [1] [g]; 255.20 [1], [3]), and each of the grounds asserted could have been raised within the statutory time limits. In any event, severance was properly denied because the defenses of defendant and the codefendant were not so irreconcilable as to require severance (see People v Mahboubian,
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