People v. Canty

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

None of the three grounds urged by defendant warrants reversal of his conviction. There was no abuse of discretion in the trial court’s rulings as to the use of evidence of defendant’s prior convictions for impeachment purposes if he took the witness stand. Accordingly, beyond this, appellate review of the trial court’s rulings terminated at the Appellate Division (People v Pollock, 50 NY2d 547, 549-550).

Defendant’s contention, that inasmuch as there was no independent evidence that his alibi had been…