People v. Wells

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Bruce Allen, J.), rendered December 15, 2005, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of attempted rape in the first degree, sexual abuse in the first degree and criminal trespass in the second degree, and sentencing him to an aggregate term of 3 1/2 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court’s Sandoval ruling permitting the prosecutor to cross-examine defendant about a prior bad act balanced the appropriate factors and was a proper exercise of discretion (People v Hayes, 97 NY2d 203 [2002]). There was a good faith basis for the prosecutor’s inquiry (see…