People v. Johnson

— Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Vinik, J.), rendered March 9, 1983, convicting him of robbery in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Judgment affirmed.

The court’s pretrial Sandoval ruling (People v Sandoval, 34 NY2d 371), permitting the prosecutor to cross-examine the defendant concerning three prior crimes, did not constitute an abuse of discretion. In this case, the defendant had 16 prior arrests which resulted in one felony and six misdemeanor convictions. The court properly exercised its discretion in limiting the…