People v. Haynes

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Corriero, J.), rendered December 13, 1990, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant contends that he was deprived of a fair trial as a result of the alleged violation by the prosecutor of the trial court’s Sandoval ruling. We disagree. The cross-examination of a defendant in regard to matters precluded by the trial court’s Sandoval ruling constitutes error (see, People v Wilkens, 177…