Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
Contrary to the defendant's contention, "[t]he inherent power of a court to correct its own errors extends to a statement or even formal pronouncement made by a court which may create `apparent ambiguity' but `which is, plainly, the result of some inadvertence on his [the Judge's] part, and which our reason tells us is a mere mistake'" (People v Minaya,
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