People v. Vega

*455Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (John S. Moore, J., at dismissal and severance motions; David Stadtmauer, J., at jury trial and sentencing), rendered May 19, 2008, convicting defendant of rape in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 12 years, unanimously affirmed.

The motion and trial courts properly exercised their respective discretion in denying defendant’s motion to sever counts charging two unrelated rapes. The counts were properly joined as “similar in law” pursuant to CPL 200.20 (2) (c), and defendant did not make a sufficient showing to…