People v. Tyson

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Kramer, J.), rendered July 1, 1986, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to an indeterminate term of 6 Vi to 13 years’ imprisonment.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The trial court’s pretrial Sandoval ruling, which permitted *955the People to cross-examine the defendant about the illegal acts underlying a 1979 felony conviction, as well as about a 1985 misdemeanor conviction, did not constitute an…