People v. Terry

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Harold Rothwax, J., at suppression hearing; Mary McGowan Davis, J., at trial and sentence), rendered October 15, 1992, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 6 to 12 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant failed to show that the prejudicial effect of im*200peachment testimony outweighed the probative value of the evidence on the issue of credibility with respect to the court’s ruling that the prosecutor could inquire as to…