People v. Gathers

—Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Frank Diaz, J.), rendered February 7, 1992, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of attempted robbery in the second degree and sentencing him, as *752a violent predicate felon, to a term of 3 to 6 years, unanimously affirmed.

It is established that the nature and extent of cross-examination is within the sound discretion of the Trial Judge, who may "make an advance ruling as to the use by the prosecutor of prior convictions or proof of the prior commission of specific criminal, vicious or immoral acts for the purpose of impeaching a defendant’s…