Opinion
November 9, 2000.
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Micki Scherer, J.), rendered July 13, 1998, convicting defendant, after a jury trial, of grand larceny in the third degree and criminal possession of stolen property in the third degree, and sentencing him, as a second felony offender, to concurrent terms of 3 1/2 to 7 years, unanimously affirmed.
Seth Davis, for respondent.
Mara L. Taylor, for defendant-appellant.
Before: Sullivan, P.J., Rosenberger, Williams, Ellerin, Buckley, JJ.
The court's Sandoval ruling balanced the appropriate factors and was a proper exercise of discretion (see, People v. Walker, 83 N.Y.2d 455, 458-459; People v. Mattiace, 77 N.Y.2d 269, 275-276; People v. Pavao, 59 N.Y.2d 282, 292). Defendant's three felony convictions were theft-related and thus were particularly relevant to credibility, and the court was under no obligation to preclude the People from referring to these convictions by name.
THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER OF SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT.