People v. Reed

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County (Braslow, J.), rendered May 23, 2012, convicting him of murder in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant’s challenge to the trial court’s Sandoval ruling (see People v Sandoval, 34 NY2d 371 [1974]) is without merit. The defendant failed to meet his burden of demonstrating that the prejudicial effect of cross-examination regarding the prior conviction and underlying charges so outweighed the probative worth of that evidence that exclusion was…