People v. Vanderhall

Appeal by the defendant *656from a judgment of the County Court, Nassau Count (Harrington, J.), rendered October 9, 1985, convicting him of grand larceny in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant contends that he was denied a fair trial by the court’s Sandoval ruling which permitted questioning about several prior larceny convictions and a conviction for attempted criminal possession of stolen property, at the defendant’s trial for grand larceny. Initially we note that there is no automatic bar to questioning a defendant…