People v. Cummings

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Knipel, J.), rendered October 13, 1998, convicting him of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree and criminal sale of marihuana in the fourth degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant contends that he was denied the effective assistance of trial counsel because counsel voluntarily introduced information regarding the defendant’s prior arrests during the *542trial and subsequently rejected the trial court’s proposal for a limiting jury…