People v. Purnell

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Phylis Skloot Bamberger, J.), rendered April 11, 1997, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in or near school grounds and criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 8 to 16 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court’s Sandoval ruling, permitting the prosecutor to impeach defendant’s credibility with his five felony convictions, without identifying the crimes or eliciting any other information about these convictions except…