People v. Ramos

—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 criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 7V2 to 15 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court’s Sandoval ruling permitting elicitation of the date and nature of defendant’s two prior felony drug convictions, and precluding inquiry into any underlying facts, was an appropriate exercise of discretion. The prior…