People v. Waltower

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Kohm, J.), rendered May 7, 1997, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The trial court’s Sandoval ruling (see, People v Sandoval, 34 NY2d 371), permitting the prosecution to cross-examine the defendant regarding the underlying facts of his prior convictions for attempted robbery in the second degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, was a provident exercise…