There is no reason to disturb the jury's rejection of defendant's affirmative defense (Penal Law § 160.15 [4]) that the item he displayed was actually a toy. The jury properly discredited those portions of defendant's statements to the police that supported this defense (see People v Gaimari, 176 N.Y. 84, 94 [1903]).
With respect to the 12th count of the indictment, in which defendant entered an unlocked and otherwise unsecured vestibule
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