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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v Stafford Anderson, Appellant.
   Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Bernard Jackson, J.), rendered June 29, 1989, convicting defendant, after jury trial, of robbery in the first degree and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to an indeterminate term of from 9 to 18 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s application at trial for a material witness order was deficient in both form (CPL 620.30 [1]) and substance (CPL 620.20 [1] [a], [b]). Appellant failed to demonstrate that Martinez possessed material testimony or was not amenable to subpoena.

With respect to defendant’s request for a missing witness charge as to Martinez and another witness, there is no indication that either witness was under the People’s control. While the court would have been better advised not to refer to the defendant’s "election” not to testify in its no adverse inference charge, considering the instruction as a whole, we find no basis for reversal (see, People v Diggs, 151 AD2d 359, 362). Defendant’s remaining arguments are either unpreserved or without merit. Concur—Murphy, P. J., Sullivan, Carro, Ellerin and Smith, JJ.