People v. Guadalupe

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Harold Rothwax, J.), rendered October 25, 1995, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first degree and reckless endangerment in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent violent felony offender, to consecutive terms of 25 years to life and SVs to 7 years, and imposing a fine of $5,000 as to each crime, unanimously affirmed.

The court’s initial Sandoval rulings properly weighed the probative value of defendant’s prior crimes against the potential for prejudice (see, People v Pavao, 59 NY2d 282, 291-292). Defendant’s…