People v. Michalek

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be modified and the case remitted to Supreme Court, Suffolk County, for further proceedings in accordance with this memorandum and, as so modified, affirmed.

A pretrial in camera Sandoval hearing was held in the instant case for which there is no transcript in the record, at which the trial court determined that the People would be permitted to question defendant concerning a prior New York felony conviction, but not about the underlying facts of that conviction. At trial, shortly before defendant was to testify, the…