People v. Mullins

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Riviezzo, J.), rendered May 2, 2013, convicting him of assault in the first degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Contrary to the defendant’s contention, the Supreme Court’s Sandoval ruling (see People v Sandoval, 34 NY2d 371, 375 [1974]) was a provident exercise of discretion. The court’s ruling struck an appropriate balance between the probative value of the defendant’s prior conviction on the issue of his…