People v. Mitchell

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Ira Beal, J.), rendered August 9,1994, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing her, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of Alh to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

Given defendant’s lengthy criminal history, the trial court’s Sandoval ruling struck an appropriate balance even though the prosecutor was permitted to elicit two drug-related felonies, including attempted criminal sale of a…