People v. McClam

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Nassau County (Goodman, J.), rendered August 4, 1989, convicting him of burglary in the second degree and criminal possession of stolen property in the fifth degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Contrary to the defendant’s contention, the trial court’s decision to permit inquiry into one of the defendant’s numerous prior burglary convictions was neither an improvident exercise of discretion nor unduly prejudicial to the defendant (see, People v Boyd, 156 AD2d 701; People v Hamlin,…