People v. Terry

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Antonio Brandveen, J.), rendered July 19, 1993, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 5 to 10 years, unanimously affirmed.

Defendant’s motion for a mistrial based upon a violation of the trial court’s Sandoval ruling was properly denied. Defendant correctly asserts that the prosecutor’s question about whether he had pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge was a direct violation of the Sandoval ruling. However,…