People v. Mitchell

Judgment of the Supreme Court, New York County (Alfred Kleiman, J.), rendered on April 5, 1989, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of the *248crime of robbery in the third degree and which sentenced him as a persistent violent felony offender to a term of 2 to 4 years’ imprisonment, unanimously affirmed.

In response to defendant’s Sandoval motion (People v Sandoval, 34 NY2d 371), the trial court ruled that it would permit the District Attorney to cross-examine the defendant in regard to his non-drug-related convictions within the previous 10 years solely to the extent of permitting "the…