People v. Burke

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (O’Brien, J.), rendered May 23, 1985, convicting him of robbery in the first degree and grand larceny in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

We reject the defendant’s contention that the court, in its *843Sandoval ruling, failed to exercise its discretion in balancing the probative weight of the evidence on the issue of defendant’s credibility against the risk that it might be viewed as evidence of guilt or criminal propensity, or that it might deter the…