People v. Thompson
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
The defendant’s challenge to the Supreme Court’s Sandoval ruling (see People v Sandoval, 34 NY2d 371 [1974]) is without merit. The court struck an appropriate balance between the probative value of the defendant’s prior crimes on the issue of credibility and the possible prejudice to the defendant (see People v Springer, 13 AD3d 657, 658 [2004]; People v Mack, 6 AD3d 551 [2004]). The court declined to permit cross-examination as to certain convictions that were remote or had little bearing on the defendant’s credibility, and prohibited the prosecution from eliciting the underlying facts of…
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