Since, in addition to attacking the credibility of the complaining witnesses, the codefendant's counsel put forward an implicit alternative defense that the codefendant was as much a victim of defendant's threats as were the complaining witnesses, the better course might have been to grant defendant's severance motion (see People v. Mahboubian,
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