People v. Staine

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Lott, J.), rendered March 8, 2006, 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 *490(see People v Sandoval, 34 NY2d 371 [1974]) is without merit. The Supreme Court’s ruling struck an appropriate balance between the probative value of the defendant’s prior robbery conviction on the issue of his credibility and the possible prejudice to him in this murder trial (see People v…