People v. Lashley

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Sherman, J.), rendered May 4, 1993, convicting him of robbery in the first degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant contends that the trial court improvidently exercised its discretion in its Sandoval ruling. He argues that the court failed to give adequate weight to the prejudicial effect of allowing the prosecution to inquire into his prior convictions (see, People v Walker, 83 NY2d 455; People v…