People v. Grice

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Daniel P. FitzGerald, J.), rendered December 4, 1989, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a predicate felon, to an indeterminate term of imprisonment of from 5 to 10 years, unanimously affirmed.

Contrary to the defendant’s contentions, the record reveals that the trial court weighed the probative worth of the evidence against the risk of unfair prejudice and permissibly concluded that the prosecution should be permitted to inquire into the facts…