People v. Ramirez

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Edward McLaughlin, J.), rendered July 16, 1997, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the first degree (five counts), criminal sale of a controlled substance in the second degree and conspiracy in the second degree, and sentencing him to five concurrent terms of 25 years to life to run concurrently with two concurrent terms of SVs to 25 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly exercised its discretion in denying defendant’s application to preclude the People from cross-examining him about a…