People v. Footman

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County (Weissman, J.), rendered May 12, 1994, convicting him of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree and resisting arrest, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The trial court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in issuing a Sandoval ruling permitting the prosecution to cross-examine the defendant, should he choose to testify, with respect to the underlying facts of his prior youthful offender adjudication, which involved an offense similar in nature to the…