People v. Dobbins

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Ira Beal, J.), rendered December 6, 1994, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 41/2 to 9 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court’s Sandoval ruling was a proper exercise of discretion (see, People v Walker, 83 NY2d 455, 459; People v Rivera, 227 AD2d 205, lv denied 88 NY2d 993).

By failing to make sufficient offers of proof, defendant failed to preserve his claim that the court improperly limited his cross-examination at the…