People v. Smith

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Dorothy Cropper, J.), rendered April 10, 1992, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of two counts of robbery in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent felony offender, to concurrent terms of 8 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

The scope of cross-examination rests in the sound discretion of the trial court and is reviewed on appeal only for plain abuse (People v Trinidad, 177 AD2d 286, lv denied 79 NY2d 865). Here, we find no abuse, as the court properly precluded cross-examination of the complainant regarding a 1987 arrest which…