People v. Lewis

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Albert Williams, J.), rendered February 28, 1991, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first degree and robbery in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent violent felony offender, to concurrent terms of 15 years to life and 12 years to life, respectively, unanimously affirmed.

The trial court’s Sandoval ruling properly weighed the probative value of defendant’s prior convictions against the potential for undue prejudice (see, People v Allen, 186 AD2d 379, 380, lv denied 81 NY2d 836). The prior felony convictions…