People v. Jones

—Judgment, Supreme *252Court, New York County (Patricia Williams, J.), rendered November 3, 1993, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of grand larceny in the fourth degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 2 to 4 years, unanimously affirmed.

The trial court appropriately exercised its discretion in considering the nature of defendant’s 22 prior convictions for the purpose of balancing the prejudicial and probative values thereof, permitting cross-examination regarding only the existence of five prior petit larceny convictions, as well as the existence and…