People v. Sanders

—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Leona Leo, J., at suppression hearing and jury trial; Juanita Bing Newton, J., at sentence), rendered December 22, 1998, as amended March 2, 1999, convicting defendant of burglary in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a persistent violent felony offender, to a term of 16 years to life, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly exercised its discretion in admitting evidence of defendant’s arrest for an uncharged trespass, since this testimony was necessary to complete the narrative of the case, to explain how defendant came to be arrested in…