People v. Colon

Appeal by the defendant from a *477judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County (Rohl, J.), rendered July 31, 1987, convicting him of attempted criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon his plea of guilty, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

We find that the trial court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in ruling that the prosecutor could inquire as to the defendant’s convictions in 1980 and 1984 for burglary in the third degree. Such convictions and the underlying facts thereof were particularly relevant in assessing the defendant’s…