People v. Rojas

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Herbert Adlerberg, J., at speedy trial motion; Charles Tejada, J., at trial), rendered September 11, 1991, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 41/i to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

Once defendant had used cross-examination to make broad assertions bearing on his guilt or innocence, even though the prosecutor’s questions did not call for such testimony, the People were entitled to contradict his non-collateral testimony…