People v. Cruz

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Fred Eggert, J., at hearing; John Collins, J., at trial), rendered July 1, 1992, 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 6 to 12 years, unanimously affirmed.

The trial court’s instruction that defendant’s prior conviction did not disqualify him from testifying and would be considered only for the purpose of evaluating his credibility did not imply that defendant’s testimony was less credible than the other witnesses or…