People v. Moore

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

The Appellate Division correctly concluded that the trial court erred in permitting the prosecutor to cross-examine defendant about two prior crimes which the court’s earlier Sandoval ruling had previously disallowed (see, People v Sandoval, 34 NY2d 371). As the court below noted, defendant’s equivocal statements on cross-examination did not open the door to questions about those crimes, both of which involved knife-point robberies in Central Park (see, People v Fardan, 82 NY2d 638, 646). The exchange on…