People v. Gonzalez

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…