People v. Lee

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Mar-ras, J.), rendered June 1, 2007, convicting him of robbery in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

In making an advance ruling under People v Sandoval (34 NY2d 371 [1974]) as to the admissibility of evidence of the defendant’s prior convictions should he testify, the Supreme Court properly balanced “the probative worth of evidence of prior specific criminal, vicious or immoral acts on the issue of the defendant’s credibility” against “the risk of unfair…