People v. Santiago

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Denis Boyle, J.), rendered October 5, 2000, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a weapon in the second and third degrees and reckless endangerment in the first degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to an aggregate term of seven years, unanimously affirmed.

The court’s Sandoval ruling, permitting only limited inquiry into defendant’s prior record, balanced the appropriate factors and was a proper exercise of discretion (see, People v Walker, 83 NY2d 455, 458-459). The lai;ge quantity of drugs possessed *215by…