People v. Chisholm

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Suffolk County (Corso, J.), rendered April 29, 1999, convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree (two counts) and criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed. .

During a pre-trial Sandoval hearing (see, People v Sandoval, 34 NY2d 371), the court ruled that the prosecutor could not cross-examine the defendant about a 1994 conviction of attempted criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third…