People v. Duchesne

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Jeffrey Atlas, J.), rendered December 19, 1996, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of two counts of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and one count of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to three concurrent terms of 7 to 14 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court’s Sandoval ruling permitting limited inquiry into defendant’s two 1982 convictions for larceny and robbery was a proper exercise of discretion. The convictions were highly probative…