Legal Opinion
People v. Semidey
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided October 6, 1998PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Frederic Berman, J.), rendered July 7, 1995, convict*58ing 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 6V2 to 13 years, unanimously affirmed.
The court properly exercised its discretion in its Sandoval ruling where it limited inquiry to two out of fifteen prior convictions that directly bore on defendant’s credibility. Defendant expressly waived any objection to the admission of uncharged crimes evidence and then utilized such evidence as a…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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- People v. SmithAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1995
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