People v. Melendez

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Robert M. Stolz, J), rendered May 21, 2008, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of burglary in the first degree (two counts), robbery in the first and second degrees and burglary in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to an aggregate term of 18 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court’s Sandoval ruling balanced the appropriate factors and was a proper exercise of discretion (see People v Hayes, 97 *630NY2d 203 [2002]). The court properly permitted the People to cross-examine defendant about uncharged robberies, since…