People v. Martin

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Clifford A. Scott, J.), rendered October 1, 1990, convicting defendant, after jury trial, of burglary in the third degree and criminal possession of stolen property in the fifth degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of imprisonment of 3 Vi to 7 years and 1 year, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

The trial court appropriately exercised its discretion in permitting cross-examination of defendant only as to those prior convictions that were not remote in time, and that had a reasonable bearing on credibility…