People v. Rupnarain

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Erlbaum, J.), rendered January 26, 2000, convicting him of assault in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree (two counts), upon a jury verdict, and assault in the second degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The trial court’s Sandoval ruling (see People v Sandoval, 34 NY2d 371), permitting the prosecutor to cross-examine the defendant concerning two prior convictions of assault and robbery, was proper. Those convictions were…