People v. Vega

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Joseph Cerbone, J.), rendered December 3, 1998, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of attempted murder in the second degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 20 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court’s Sandoval ruling, which permitted inquiry into defendant’s felony drug conviction but precluded inquiry into a violation and use of aliases, balanced the appropriate factors and was a proper exercise of discretion (People v Walker, 83 NY2d 455, 459). The record fails to support defendant’s claim that the court based its…