People v. Meeks

*801Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Aloise, J.), rendered April 12, 2006, convicting him of attempted murder in the first degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, and menacing in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Contrary to the defendant’s contention, the Supreme Court providently exercised its discretion in modifying its Sandoval ruling (see People v Sandoval, 34 NY2d 371, 375 [1974]) to allow the prosecution to cross-examine the defendant about the underlying facts…