People v. Walker

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Elbert Hinkson, J., at Sandoval hearing and jury trial), rendered July 29, 1991, convicting defendant of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and sentencing him to a term of six to twelve years, unanimously affirmed.

In its Sandoval ruling the court permitted inquiry into the facts that defendant had two felony convictions, seventeen *621misdemeanor convictions, and used fourteen aliases and six dates of birth, but precluded any inquiry into the underlying facts of the convictions, some of which were for drug-related offenses. The…