The court providently exercised its discretion in denying defendant's repeated motions for a mistrial, made on the ground that counsel for a jointly tried codefendant was allegedly acting as a "second prosecutor" against defendant. The defenses were not irreconcilable and did not warrant a severance (see People v Mahboubian,
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