Legal Opinion

People v. Williams

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided December 2, 1997Published

1Opinion of the Court

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Jay Gold, J.), rendered July 11, 1995, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of attempted burglary in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 2 to 4 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court’s Sandoval ruling was a proper exercise of discretion. Defendant was not entitled to be insulated from questioning as to his prior theft-related crimes simply because of his *4tendency to specialize in a specific type of crime (see, People v Post, 235 AD2d 299, lv denied 90 NY2d 862). The number of convictions as to which…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. People v. PostAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1997
  2. People v. RiveraAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1996

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