People v. Lizardi

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Starkey, J.), rendered August 14, 1996, convicting him of robbery in the first degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The trial court’s Sandoval ruling, which permitted an inquiry into the facts underlying the defendant’s three prior convictions to the extent necessary for impeachment purposes, was a provident exercise of discretion (see, People…