People v. Odiat

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be modified and the case remitted to Supreme Court, Bronx County, for further proceedings in accordance with this memorandum and, as so modified, affirmed.

Defendant was indicted, inter alla, on charges of robbery in the first and second degrees and assault in the first degree arising out of an alleged robbery of a Bronx grocery store proprietor. At a Sandoval hearing the prosecutor proposed to cross-examine defendant at trial on a prior felony conviction of attempted criminal sale of a controlled substance and two…