People v. Kato

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Daniel E FitzGerald, J.), rendered September 25, 2003, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of grand larceny in the fourth degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to a term of 2 to 4 years, unanimously affirmed.

The court properly exercised its discretion when it declined to provide defendant with an advance ruling delineating precisely what testimony would open the door to the admission of otherwise precluded uncharged crime evidence as a Molineux exception (see People v Frazier, 309 AD2d 534 [2003], lv denied 1 NY3d 571 [2003],…