Legal Opinion
People v. Couvertier
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided December 7, 1995PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Bernard Fried, J., on Sandoval motion; Renee White, J., at trial), rendered October 20, 1993, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second violent felony offender, to a term of 31/2 to 7 years, unanimously affirmed.
The court’s Sandoval ruling, allowing the People to inquire into the date and nature of defendant’s four prior felony convictions without going into the underlying facts, was a proper exercise of discretion even though one of the convictions, like the…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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