People v. Johnson

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Kohm, J.), rendered April 24, 2000, convicting him of murder in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The trial court’s Sandoval ruling (see People v Sandoval, 34 NY2d 371), which permitted the prosecutor to cross-examine the defendant concerning two prior convictions, was a provident exercise of discretion. Those offenses were relevant to the issues of the defendant’s credibility as a witness and…