People v. Byrd

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County (Vaughn, J.), rendered January 4, 1983, convicting him of murder in the second degree and attempted robbery in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

We find unpersuasive the defendant’s contention that he was denied a fair trial as a result of the court’s Sandoval ruling. The record demonstrates that the trial court engaged in a thorough balancing of the probative value and the prejudicial effect of an inquiry into the defendant’s prior convictions (see,…