Legal Opinion
People v. Pender
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided November 20, 1995PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Egitto, J.), rendered October 8, 1992, convicting him of burglary in the second degree and robbery in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The trial court’s ruling permitting the prosecutor to cross-examine the defendant regarding his 1989 convictions for grand larceny in the fourth degree and attempted robbery in the second degree was not an improvident exercise of discretion. The mere fact that a defendant’s prior crimes are similar or even identical to…
2Cases cited14 opinions
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