Legal Opinion

People v. Serrano

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided May 12, 1997Published

1Opinion of the Court

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Orange County (Byrne, J.), rendered April 22, 1993, convicting him of assault in the second degree (two counts), upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

Contrary to the defendant’s claim, the trial court’s ruling permitting the prosecutor to ask the defendant whether or not *445he had been convicted of a felony in 1987 and another in 1990, without going into the underlying facts of these cases, was not an improvident exercise of discretion (see, People v Pender, 221 AD2d 573; People v Ardila, 202…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. People v. ArdilaNew York Court of Appeals · 1995
  2. People v. PenderAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1995
  3. People v. ArdilaAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1994

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