Legal Opinion
People v. Fana
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided July 18, 1988PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
— Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Groh, J.), rendered January 12, 1982, convicting him of robbery in the second degree (two counts) and criminal use of a firearm in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant asserts that the trial court improperly allowed the People to question him about the prior burglaries to which he pleaded guilty. We disagree. The extent to which the People may use the defendant’s prior crimes to impeach his credibility is largely within the discretion of…
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