People v. Barbosa

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Robert Haft, J.), rendered February 7, 1989, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of burglary in the second degree and criminal possession of stolen property in the fourth degree, and sentencing him as a persistent violent felony offender to concurrent indeterminate prison terms of from fifteen years to life and two to four years, unanimously affirmed.

In this trial for burglary in the second degree and possession of burglar’s tools, the court’s Sandoval ruling, permitting the prosecutor to cross-examine the defendant about his 1983 conviction for…