People v. Gonzalez

278 A.D.2d 111, 718 N.Y.S.2d 311, 2000 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 14011

Opinion

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Jeffrey Atlas, J.), rendered December 18, 1997, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of assault in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 4V2 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court’s Sandoval ruling, which permitted cross-examination concerning fifteen larceny-related convictions, without any reference to the underlying facts of those convictions, and which denied inquiry into two prior assault convictions and a prior arson conviction, balanced the appropriate factors and was a proper exercise of discretion (see People v Walker, 83 NY2d 455, 458-459; People v Cooper, 249 AD2d 141, affd 92 NY2d 968). We note that the larceny-related convictions were both highly relevant to credibility and dissimilar to the crime with which defendant was charged. Concur— Nardelli, J. P., Tom, Mazzarelli, Wallach and Rubin, JJ.