People v. Ramirez

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Alfred Donati, J.), rendered July 1, 1996, 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 8 to 16 years, unanimously affirmed.

In its Sandoval ruling, the court properly exercised its discretion in balancing the probative nature of defendant’s prior narcotics convictions against the possibility of undue prejudice and appropriately permitted the People to elicit these convictions without revealing that they occurred in close…