People v. Montalbo

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Felice Shea, J.), rendered October 24, 1997, 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 5V2 to 11 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court’s Sandoval ruling, limiting inquiry to two of defendant’s four drug-related convictions and his use of aliases on those occasions, was an appropriate exercise of discretion since these convictions, although similar to the charged crimes, demonstrated defendant’s willingness to place his own…