The court properly denied defendant's severance motion. The counts were properly joined on the ground of overlapping evidence, pursuant to CPL 200.20(2)(b). While not identical, the burglaries involved a sufficiently unique modus operandi so that the evidence of each was admissible as to the others (see People v Beam,
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